Author: DONI (Antonio Francesco):
Title: Mondi Celesti, Terrestri, et Infernali, de Gli Academici Pellegrini. Composti dal Doni: Mondo Piccolo, Grande, de ma maritati, delle Puttane, & Russiani, Soldai, & Capita ni poltroni, Dottor cattiui, Legist, Artisti, de gli Usuarai, de Poeti & Copositori ignoranti.
Description: In Vinegia, appresso Dominico Farri, 1567. Small 8vo, 153 x 100 mms., pp. [xvi], 439 440 - 442 blank]. woodcut ornament on title-page, woodcut portrait of author on verso of leaf facing first page of text [p. xvi, recto blank], contemporary inscription on title-page, inscription dated "1569 in Padua" on recto of front free end-paper, small, later seminary bookplate on front free paste-down end-paper, contemporary vellum, remnants of ties; end-papers and binding a bit soiled, but a good copy. The publisher and musician Antonio Francesco Doni (1513 - 1574) "founded in Milan the Accademia Ortolana , an academy of poets, painters and musicians, but was dissolved at the instigation of the church because of perceived as offensive publications. To rehabilitate himself and get a job with the Bishop of Piacenza , he wrote within a short time the musicological Dialogo della musica , which he published in 1544 in Venice . However, the work was judged negatively by the critics" (Wikipedia). It was first published in two volumes in 1552 - 1553, with a further edition in 1562 This appears to be the second collected edition, or third edition. and there were many subsequent editions, which suggests that it was Doni's most successful work. This also probably counts as an early utopian work, visualizing a society composed of anarchists and communists, though the language often verges on satire or irony. Doni's reputation with academics and critics began to improve recently with the publicaiion of G. Masi, "'Quelle Discordanze sì Perfette'. Anton Francesco Doni 1551–1553," in Atti e Memorie dell'Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere, 53, n.s. 39 (1988), 9–112.

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