PRESENTED BY ART HISTORIAN TO ART RESTORER
ROSINI, Giovanni.
Alla memoria di Maria Antinori vedova del Marchese Consalvi di Macerata morta improvvisamente la sera del XIV marzo in Firenze. Ode ...
Pisa, Niccolò Capurro, 1852.
Large 8vo, pp. 11, [1]; a little light foxing; a very good copy, uncut, in contemporary printed wrappers; lightly foxed and creased; contemporary ink inscription ‘Rosini’ to front cover and 'Di A. Garagalli dono dell'Autore' in the same hand.
[with:]
—. ‘Alla memoria di Maria Antinori Vedova Consalvi ...’ [Florence,] Benelli, [1852].
Single sheet (304 x 207 mm), text printed within black mourning border; small chip to lower margin, creases where folded; very good.
[and:]
—. Autograph letter signed. Pisa, 20 April 1852.
8vo (172 x 106 mm), p. 1; 13 lines in brown ink; good.
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Alla memoria di Maria Antinori vedova del Marchese Consalvi di Macerata morta improvvisamente la sera del XIV marzo in Firenze. Ode ...
Scarce first and only edition of this poem in memory of Maria Antinori, widow of the Marchese Consalvi, on her death at the age of thirty-five, penned by the poet, playwright, historical novelist, art historian, and art collector Giovanni Rosini (1776–1855), this copy presented by the author to the Florentine art historian Antonio Garagalli (1784–1856).
Loosely inserted in the book are a seemingly unrecorded broadside announcement of Maria Antinori’s death and an autograph letter by Rosini written a month after Antinori’s funeral – likely to Garagalli – enquiring about the upcoming sale of paintings from the Galleria Rinuccini, praising the last work in the catalogue by Carlo Dolci and predicting competition from Count Trivulzio. Garagalli had previously restored works by Andrea del Sarto at the Duomo of Pisa, and had conducted the initial valuation of the Rinuccini collection (see d’Alconzo, Gli uomini e le cose (2007), p. 269). The auction, consisting of some seven hundred works, took place in May, and the work Rosini here calls the ‘star of the gallery’ (trans.) is Dolci’s David with the Head of Goliath (lot 254), now at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
We have been unable to trace any copies outside Italy.
