Gabriele D’Annunzio - 3 grandi Odi commemorative e funebri in volume unico (su Hugo, Carducci e Verdi) - 1901-1913

Precious and fascinating early 20th-century editorial collection that gathers in a single rigid volume three of Gabriele D'Annunzio's most famous civil and elegiac odes, composed in memory of his contemporaries' greatest beacons in culture. The three works, all in large format and published in Milan by the renowned Fratelli Treves Editori, form the so-called D'Annunzian “memory trilogy.”

The volume contains, in the exact order of binding:

1) Ode to Vittore Hugo.
Milan, Fratelli Treves, Editori, 1904.
Large-format reprint of the work originally published in 1902 for the centenary of the French writer’s birth.
The work is enriched by the preservation of the splendid off-text photographic plate in the frontispiece depicting the statue of Victor Hugo donated by the Franco-Italian League of Paris to the city of Rome.
Pages: (6) + 20

2) The Oration and the Song in Death of Giosuè Carducci.
Milan, Fratelli Treves, Editori, 1907.
First edition, composed on the occasion of the Italian Nobel Prize laureate’s death.
Pages: (4) + 48

3) In Death of Giuseppe Verdi. Song preceded by an oration to the youth.
Milan, Fratelli Treves, Editori, 1913.
Reprint.
Pages: (4) + 28

Conditions of the work:
• Binding: solid and well-structured vintage rigid red canvas binding with marbleized endpapers. Firm spine with ink titles ("D'Annunzio - Odi -"). Front boards fairly clean with sharply squared corners. Small hole/missing piece on the spine. Binding slightly opened between the first and second book.
• Interior: pages well preserved with original wide and intact margins. Physiological and slight foxing due to time and early-20th-century paper. A light damp-stain is present affecting the upper margins of the pages of the first book, but it does not affect legibility or graphic elements in any way. Mild marginal yellowing of the paper.
• Overall condition: on the whole a very genuine, fresh, solid, and well-preserved exemplar.

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