P. Salandri - Rime - 1783

RIME DELL’ABBATE PELLEGRINO SALANDRI

First edition – Nice, Published by 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 of Reggio Emilia, 1723-1771, had been dead for well over a decade). The work gathers sonnets, songs, odes, and pieces of various kinds, including occasional verses, panegyrics, love poetry, and inspirations in the Parinian vein, with a tone that is elegant and measured, typical of the finest Arcadian and Neoclassical lyric poetry of the time.

The volume also contains sections dedicated to sonnets of various kinds, laudations, songs, and annotations, testimony to the refined literary culture of Abate Salandri (academic of the Transformed in 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.

A copy in very good condition for an 1783 volume: contemporary half-leather binding with marbled boards (slight signs of use and gilding to the spine), fresh leaves with light scattered foxing typical of the period, margins intact. Complete and genuine.

An item of notable interest for those who collect eighteenth-century poetry, Emilia or Mantuan texts, or Nice editions. A small bibliographic jewel of late Italian Enlightenment.