PETRONI (Stefano Egidio). The Napoleonides.... - Lot 96 - Osenat

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PETRONI (Stefano Egidio). The Napoleonides.... - Lot 96 - Osenat
PETRONI (Stefano Egidio). The Napoleonides. Parigi, dai torchi di P. Didot il magg. 1813. In-8, xxiv-550-(2) pp.., Printed in Italian and French, black long grain morocco, narrow ribbed threaded back decorated with gold and cold fleurons, dishes decorated with a gilded decoration with a wide frame of oriental motifs at the bottom sifted between two completed cold, with corner fleurons, vine shoots in spandrels and coat of arms in the centre, decorated cups, inner frame of the same leather decorated with a wheel with quadrilobic motifs in between with corner crosses, orange-beige moire linings decorated with a fine gold and cold frame, guards of the same moire, gilded edges (bound p. Doll.). Partly original edition dedicated to the Empress Marie-Louise, of this poetic sequel originally published by the French printing house in Naples in 1809, which was subsequently deleted, added and amended with a view to a bilingual edition that began printing in 1811 but remained unfinished. This 1813 edition presents for the first time the entire revised version of the Italian text. It also includes, printed in French, a general introduction and notes on the medals by the writer Joseph Lavallée, also head of the division of the Grand Chancellery of the Legion of Honour, and, in Italian, notes on the text by the doctor and man of letters Antonio Pitaro. 100 odes to celebrate the great stages of Napoleon I's life: this true modern Aeneid or Henriade runs from the early youth in Brienne until the Polish countryside ended by the Tilsit peace. 101 medals engraved on copper with a line in the text, i.e.: one side with the title (portrait of the emperor) and 100 at the top of each of the odes, labelled on the engraving in Latin, and below in French and Italian typography. They were engraved by Tommaso Piroli after drawings by Benoît Pécheux. It seems that some copies, such as Queen Hortense's, also include a portrait of Petroni. It should also be noted that these engravings are enti
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