With False Medina Imprint
‘RIZZA, Zanclevio’, pseud. [i.e. Vincenzo LAZZARI GUERRA], editor and contributor.
Piccola raccolta di composizioni satiriche di diversi autori fatta da Zanclevio Rizza, con pochi sonetti, ed un capitolo in fine del medesimo. ‘Medina’ [i.e. Mori], ‘Frangipane Mozza-Sai’ [i.e. Michelini e Tetoldini], 1788.
4to, pp. xviii, [2], CLXXXVII, [1, blank]; sporadic light foxing, slightly trimmed at head affecting a few page numbers, nevertheless a very good copy; bound in contemporary vellum-backed boards with orange paste-paper sides, vellum tips, title inked to spine, edges sprinkled red; boards very lightly rubbed.
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Piccola raccolta di composizioni satiriche di diversi autori fatta da Zanclevio Rizza, con pochi sonetti, ed un capitolo in fine del medesimo.
A very rare collection of satirical verses by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian authors, published under a false Medina imprint, edited and with some poems previously unpublished by ‘Zanclevio Rizza’, now for the first time identified with Vincenzo Lazzari Guerra.
Lazzari Guerra was a poet and member of the Accademia roveretana degli Agiati, an enlightened learned society established in Rovereto in 1750 to further both humanities and natural sciences studies. In his Piccola raccolta, Lazzari Guerra collects twenty–three poems by seven Italian authors from the previous two centuries, including Alfonso de’ Pazzi (1509–1577), Bartolomeo Dotti (1651–1713), Giuseppe d’Ippolito Pozzi (1697–1752), Giovanni Mauro d’Arcano (1501–1535), Francesco Berni (1497–1535), Girolamo Ruscelli (1518–1566), and Francesco Ruspoli (1579–1625). In addition, he includes sixteen sonnets and a capitolo (a satirical poem in triplet stanzas) of his own, all published here for the first time, on a variety of subjects, including women, unrequited love, anticlericalism, and customs of the time. In the preface to the book, he warns: ‘I am aware that [my poems] lack the merit to stand alongside any of the [other] compositions. Consequently, I have placed them at the end, allowing the reader to choose whether to peruse them or, if they prefer otherwise, to simply disregard their presence, thus saving themselves unnecessary effort’ (p. xviii, trans.).
The pseudonym of ‘Zanclevio Rizza’ appears to be a very close anagram of ‘Vincenzo Lazzari’; the authorship of the Piccola raccolta is further substantiated by the striking similarity (mise–en–page, typeface, fleurons, and borders) between the title pages of the present volume and Vincenzo Lazzari Guerra’s Composizioni poetiche … dedicate alle molto illustre signora Teresa Marini, published in Mori (near Rovereto) by Emiliano Michelini and Stefano Tetoldini in 1788.
Very rare. OCLC finds only one copy outside Italy, at the Fisher Library. Not in Melzi.