Proof, with Manuscript Corrections
ROSSETTI, Gabriele.
Roma verso la metà del secolo decimonono. Considerazioni … [London, 1840?]
[bound with:]
FEDI, Giuseppe. I vespri siciliani … dedicato al Popolo di Palermo … Livorno, Raffello Giusti, 1882.
[and one other.]
London, 1840-1884.
Three works, 12mo, GR: pp. 35, [1], with autograph manuscript corrections on four pages; Fedi: pp. 13, [1], with a half-title, one autograph correction; bound after Alfred de Vigny’s translation of Othello (Brussels, 1884) in late nineteenth-century half green diced morocco, joins worn, spine chipped; ownership inscription of William Michael Rossetti, with a manuscript index in his hand.
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Roma verso la metà del secolo decimonono. Considerazioni … [London, 1840?]
[bound with:]
FEDI, Giuseppe. I vespri siciliani … dedicato al Popolo di Palermo … Livorno, Raffello Giusti, 1882.
[and one other.]
Very rare undated (proof?) edition, with manuscript corrections, of this concise essay on contemporary Rome and the Catholic church, from the Rossetti family library. Although he was a Freemason, Gabriele Rossetti consistently asserted he was ‘un buon cattolico’ and the most pious of his many talented children became a nun. A dated edition of this essay was published in London in 1840. Of this undated printing Library Hub shows one copy only, at Senate House. Not in Giannantonio.
It is bound here with a presentation copy, inscribed to William Michael Rossetti, of a very rare poem on the medieval rebellion known as the Sicilian Vespers, by the otherwise little-known Livornese Prof. Giuseppe Fedi. Not in Library Hub or OCLC.