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4to, pp. 24; occasional marking and foxing to head of final leaf, not affecting text, otherwise largely clean and crisp throughout; in contemporary red boards; marking and occasional hole in paper on both covers, and corners bumped and worn.Rare collection of works in prose and verse recited at the meeting held at the Accademia Napoleone in Lucca to celebrate the birth of Napoleon's nephew Jérôme Charles Baciocchi, the son of his sister Elisa who had two weeks previously had her investiture as the new Princess of Lucca.
The academy has gone through several guises since the first recorded meetings in 1584, and until 1805 and the arrival of the French was known as the Accademia degli Oscuri, based from 1780 in the monastery of San Frediano, which was also to accommodate the University of Lucca in 1785. In keeping with its traditions of attracting prominent figures in both the arts and sciences, the renamed Accademia Napoleone counted among its members the likes of Canova, Volta, and Teresa… Read More
