Author: MAGALOTTI (Lorenzo):
Title: Lettere Familiari del Conte Lorenzo Magalotti, Gentiluomo Florentino, e Accadeico dellas Crusca Divise in due Parti Part Prima. [Seconda].
Description: In Venezia, Appresso Sebastian Coleti, con Licenza de Superiori, Privilegio, 1719 FIRST EDITION. 4to, 233 x 170 mms., pp. [xvi], 646 [647 errata, 647 publisher's statement, dated 2 September 1718], title-page in red and black, with engraved vignette (byAlessandro dalla Via), engraved circular portrait of Magalotti above similar emblematic youth ("Omnia Lustra") before first page of text (by Antonio Montauti), fine engraved head-piece (by the author) to top margin of first page of text, section title for part 2 after page 494, with engraved vignette at top margin of page 497, contemporary vellum, letter in ink on spine; long tear in fore-margin of leaves L2.3 (pages 83 - 86) towards inner margin, but a very good and attractively-printed copy with the armorial bookplate of Lord Dinorben on the front paste-down end-paper. It is possible that the leaves were intended to be cancelled and cut from the fore-margin rather than the lower margin; and the inner margin of L2r is stuck to the verso of the preceding leaf. Lorenzo Magalotti (1637 - 1712) was born into a Roman aristocratic family and developed an early interest in the works of Galileo Galilei and later, as a result of travels and exploration beyond Rome, became a poet, who translated Milton's Paradise Lost and John Philips's Cyder. The most complete recent work on Magalotti is that of Stefano Miniati, Lorenzo Magalotti (1637-1712): rassegna di studi e nuove prospettive di ricerca(2010)

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