La rivoluzione in Francia ed in Italia

Creator
Font. , Francesco
Form
manuscripts (documents)
codices (bound manuscripts)
decrees
letters (correspondence)
poems
satires (literary genre)
Manuscripts, Italian
Manuscripts, European
Date
1797 to 1798
Language
Italian
Subject
Satire
Italian poetry -- 18th century
Italian poetry
History
Geographic Subject
Lombardy -- History -- 18th century
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799
France
Extent
379 leaves : paper ; 267 x 190 mm bound to 274 x 197 mm
Notes
Ms. codex.
Table of contents: 1. p.1-7: Passio domini nostri Ludovici XVI (1792). -- 2. p. 8-p.iii: Section containing odes and sonnets on political events (on Louis XVI, Pope Pius VI, Napoleon Bonaparte, Assemblée nationale, the French army and navy in Italy and elsewhere, Venice, etc., including a satirical poem Ribellione degl'animali contro gli uomini. -- 3. p.167-855: [Copies of decrees, proclamations, discourses, manifestos, letters, and other documents relating to the occupation of Lombardy by the French, dated 1797, with poetry interspersed]
Title from spine.
Pagination: Paper, i + 379 + i; 1-166, [iv], 167-375, 377-457, 558-855; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; 2 preliminary leaves cut out, one of these presumably was a title.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with two unnumbered leaves between p. 166-167 in a different hand.
Binding: Contemporary half calf, with title on spine and legend "Tom. I. MSS."
Origin: Written in Lombardy, 1797-1798.
Italian.
Related works
Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3125qf2c
Also listed in
Penn Libraries Catalog
Physical Location
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 472
Provenance
Purchased, 1969.
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Resource Type
Text

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