P. Salandri - Rime - 1783

Rimes of the Abbot Pellegrino Salandri

First edition – Nice, at the Typographic Society, 1783

16 × 10 cm; pp. 222 + [2].

Elegant original edition of this eighteenth-century collection of poems, published posthumously (the author, Pellegrino Salandri from Reggio Emilia, 1723-1771, had been dead for more than a decade). The work gathers sonnets, songs, odes, and pieces of various kinds, including occasional texts, encomiastic pieces, amorous works, and pieces inspired by Parini, with a tone elegant and measured, typical of the best pastoral arcadian and neoclassical lyric of the period.

The volume also contains sections dedicated to sonnets of various kinds, odes, songs, and annotations, testimony to the refined literary culture of Abbot Salandri (academic of the Transformed at Milan and active at the courts of Modena and Mantua).

This is a rare and sought-after eighteenth-century item, little present on the antiquarian market. The few catalogued copies are mainly found in institutional libraries; appearances at auction or on the book market are sporadic and highly valued by collectors of eighteenth-century Italian literature.

Very good condition for a volume of 1783: period binding in half leather with marble boards (slight signs of use and gilt on the spine), fresh leaves with slight scattered foxing typical of the era, margins intact. Complete and genuine.

A work of notable interest for those who collect eighteenth-century poetry, Emilian or Mantuan texts, or Nice editions. A small bibliographic gem of late Italian Enlightenment.