Melchiorre Gioia - Galateo - 1853
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THE FIRST AND THE NEW GALATEO
by MELCHIORRE GIOJA
New corrected edition
Turin, Cugini Pomba e Comp. Editori, 1853
17 × 11 cm; pp. 584.
Elegant nineteenth-century edition of the famous treatise on good manners and etiquette by Melchiorre Gioja (Piacenza 1767 – Milan 1829), economist, philosopher and Italian Enlightenment intellectual.
This new corrected edition brings together in one volume The First Galateo (on the rules of conduct in private life) and The New Galateo (on the norms for the man of the world and civil society), enriched with updates and reflections by the author. The work systematically and rationally addresses topics such as:
- Cleanliness in private individuals and in citizens
- Conversations, disputes, courtesy and good manners
- Social relations, education of children, public etiquette
- Critique of abuses, excessive titles and fashions
Written with a clear, ironic and Enlightenment style, the text represents one of the most important Italian works of “modern etiquette,” influenced by utilitarian thought and the ideas of social reform of the early nineteenth century.
A reference work for the history of good manners in Italy between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries. Gioja updates the classic Galateo of Giovanni Della Casa with a rational, bourgeois and secular spirit, making it a mirror of the Risorgimento society in formation.
Very widespread in its time as a manual of self-education and training for the middle class.
Period binding in half-leather with gilt to the spine and marbled boards (signs of use and wear normal for its age, spine with small losses). Interior fresh with pages in good condition, scattered foxing and browning typical of period paper.
Complete in 584 pages.
The 1853 Pomba edition is not common on the antiquarian market, especially in contemporary binding. Appreciated by collectors of nineteenth-century works on costume, etiquette, education and Italian social history.
A small classic of nineteenth-century conduct literature, ideal for collections of old books, Risorgimento texts or etiquette manuals.
THE FIRST AND THE NEW GALATEO
by MELCHIORRE GIOJA
New corrected edition
Turin, Cugini Pomba e Comp. Editori, 1853
17 × 11 cm; pp. 584.
Elegant nineteenth-century edition of the famous treatise on good manners and etiquette by Melchiorre Gioja (Piacenza 1767 – Milan 1829), economist, philosopher and Italian Enlightenment intellectual.
This new corrected edition brings together in one volume The First Galateo (on the rules of conduct in private life) and The New Galateo (on the norms for the man of the world and civil society), enriched with updates and reflections by the author. The work systematically and rationally addresses topics such as:
- Cleanliness in private individuals and in citizens
- Conversations, disputes, courtesy and good manners
- Social relations, education of children, public etiquette
- Critique of abuses, excessive titles and fashions
Written with a clear, ironic and Enlightenment style, the text represents one of the most important Italian works of “modern etiquette,” influenced by utilitarian thought and the ideas of social reform of the early nineteenth century.
A reference work for the history of good manners in Italy between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries. Gioja updates the classic Galateo of Giovanni Della Casa with a rational, bourgeois and secular spirit, making it a mirror of the Risorgimento society in formation.
Very widespread in its time as a manual of self-education and training for the middle class.
Period binding in half-leather with gilt to the spine and marbled boards (signs of use and wear normal for its age, spine with small losses). Interior fresh with pages in good condition, scattered foxing and browning typical of period paper.
Complete in 584 pages.
The 1853 Pomba edition is not common on the antiquarian market, especially in contemporary binding. Appreciated by collectors of nineteenth-century works on costume, etiquette, education and Italian social history.
A small classic of nineteenth-century conduct literature, ideal for collections of old books, Risorgimento texts or etiquette manuals.
Details
Number of books
1
Subject
Cookery, food & drink, Curio & ephemera, Education, Fashion, History, Literature, Philosophy, Sociology
Book title
Galateo
Author/ Illustrator
Melchiorre Gioia
Condition
Good
Publication year oldest item
1853
Height
17 cm
Edition
Revised edition
Width
11 cm
Language
Italian
Original language
Yes
Publisher
Torino, Colla Pomba & Comp. Editori
Binding/ Material
Half leather
Number of pages
584
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