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Trattato su la Commedia dell'Arte, ossia improvvisa. Maschere Italiane, ed alcune scene del carnevale di Roma.

Stock Code 110368

Berlin, Ludwig Wilhelm Wittich, 1826

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Valentini's delightfully illustrated treatise on the famous cast of characters from the Commedia dell'Arte, for example 'Arlechino' and 'Pantalone', as well as those indigenous to Carnival in Rome, such as 'Quacquero', 'Bajaccio', 'Scopette', 'Villano' and 'Pulcinella'.

First edition; 4to; 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates by F. Jügel, F. W. Schwechten and C. F. Thiele after Stürmer, text in Italian and German, upper hinge starting, original boards with paper labels to spine, repair to foot of spine, all edges gilt, housed within modern cloth wrapper.

Bobins 1265 (this copy); Colas 2956; Lipperheide 3171; Hiler p870.
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Provenance: Ludwig Wilhelm Wittich, publisher (manuscript note dated 1936 to front endpaper).

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Trattato su la Commedia dell'Arte, ossia improvvisa. Maschere Italiane, ed alcune scene del carnevale di Roma.

VALENTINI, Francesco.

Stock code: 110368

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