Three small printed Latin poems of Jean Baptiste de Santeul (1630-1697), with autograph annotations. Followed by a short Latin manuscript in his own hand at the end of the volume. S Petro Caelestino Summo Pontifici Sacri Caelestinorum ordinis Pro Confessore non pontifice hymnus Victori Autusti...
Voltaire: ‘L’Enfant Prodigue’, with manuscript alterations and corrections by the author
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A printed copy of the ‘Enfant Prodigue’, with numerous alterations and corrections in M. Voltaire’s own hand. No title page. Folio 2 is a slip of paper inscribed: ‘Exemplaire de l’Enft. prodig. q. je crois corrigé et changé de la propre main de Voltaire. Voir dans sa dern. edit.’
Copies of letters of various Italian writers of the 16th-17th centuries
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Copies of letters of Ariosto, Baronio, Bellarmin, Bembo, Borromeo, Corrado, Denalio, Falloppio, Guarini, Guicciardini, Mannuccio, Montecuccolio, and Tasso, as follows: Lodovico Ariosto, Two letters to the Duke of Ferrara, 1523 Cardinal Cesare Baronio, Letters 1600, 1605 Cardinal Bellarmin, Lett...
Collection of sonnets and other works by Italian poets of the late 18th and early 19th century
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Sonnets and other small pieces of poetry, chiefly dating from 1813 but with earlier sonnets by Berardi, as follows: Matteo Berardi, Sonnets Appiano Buonafede, Sonnets G. Ferretti, Letter to the Earl of Bridgwater, 1813 Leopoldo Fidanza, Canzone Niccolo Fortiguerra, Sonnet Vincenzo Monti, Sonn...
Collection of letters of Saverio Bettinelli, Giovanni Bianchi, and Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich
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Original letters of: Saverio Bettinelli, Letters 1757-1794 Giovanni Bianchi, Letters to M. Guarnacci, 1766-1768 Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich, Letters to P. Frisio, 1763-1768