Confalonieri / Casati - Memorie e Lettere - 1889

Important and very rare first edition of the memoirs and correspondence of Federico Confalonieri, protagonist of the Italian Risorgimento whose political fortunes led him to the famous arrest of 1821 and to long detention at Spielberg.
The work, edited by Gabrio Casati who possessed the private archive, gathers his autobiographical memoirs and a large corpus of letters, offering a direct testimony of the Lombard patriotic and liberal culture of the Restoration era.

Federico Confalonieri, Memoirs and Letters. Published under the editorship of Gabrio Casati, Milan, Ulrico Hoepli, 1889.

Complete work in 2 bound volumes (the first containing the Memoirs, the second the Letters)

PP.: 289, (VI), 421, (III) COMPLETE, with portrait of Federico Confalonieri on the title page.

Copy with sheets in overall very good condition. Slight browning and usual signs of time.

Contemporary half-binding in dark burgundy cloth with gilt title on the spine, very well preserved. Front and rear endpapers present.