Grande illustrazione del Lombardo-veneto ossia storia delle città, dei borghi, comuni, castelli, ecc. fino ai tempi moderni (Volume secondo)

Features

Author:  Cesare Cantù e altri letterati

Publisher:  Corona e Caimi

Place of printing:  Milan

Year of publication:  1858

Product Condition:
Example in good condition. Half leather binding with gilt titles and friezes on the spine and marbled plates: dust spots, abrasions on the caps, edges and corners. The back appears faded with brown spots and dust spots. Pressure mark on the lateral edge of the rear plate. Minimal worm holes on the back and a slightly larger one on the back hinge. Burnished cuts with dust spots and blooms. Particularly darkened head cuts. Well-preserved papers, partly browned, with rare foxing. Forum in 100.2 (pages 785-786) with compromised text. Text in Italian language.

Pages:  (2),830,(2)

Format:  Eighth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  26
Width:  17

Description

This volume is part of an ambitious project developed by Cesare Cantù in collaboration with a "society of Italian writers" which had the aim of describing in the most exhaustive way possible the Kingdom of Lombardy-Veneto at the time in which the project of a autonomous state entrusted to Maximilian of Habsburg. The aim is to give a description "of the cities, villages, municipalities, castles, etc. up to modern times", but with a careful eye on the present and the future; in fact, in the introduction to the first volume of the work it is underlined: "our glory is not limited to graves, tombstones, to monuments. A thriving, ardent, industrious, hopeful population still cultivates the arts, industry and knowledge among us and should be distinguished by magnanimous and generous traits. The positive century calls us to abandon the field of erudition and poetry to apply ourselves to real interests." The work did not have excessive editorial success if not dismembered into the sections dedicated to the individual provinces: the greatest value of these volumes in fact lies in the wealth of historical, statistical and topographical information, organized starting from the description of the capitals up to the smaller centers of the various provinces, with interesting iconographic material thanks to the numerous black and white illustrations ft and ft and some folded maps ft. This second volume is dedicated to Venice, the Istrian coast and Belluno and its province. Beautiful illustrated frontispiece with the two coats of arms of Milan and Venice at the top, on the sides 10 medallions with portraits of illustrious people and at the bottom the signs of progress: Volta's pile and a train on a viaduct

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