Itinerario delle pitture, sculture ed architetture più rare di molte città d'Italia [bound with:] Le pitture, sculture ed architetture più rare di Roma

Two works bound together, 8vo (180 x 120 mm). Itinerario: 292 pp. Collation: A-R⁸ S¹⁰; Pitture: 66 pp. Collation: A-C⁸ D¹⁰(-D¹⁰). Contemporary cardboards, manuscript title on spine (spine slightly soiled). Some foxing, restoration to the title page and final leaf not affecting the text, marginal paper loss to pp. 231- 232 slightly affecting the text. Uncut with deckle edge.

First edition, dedicated by the author to the baroness from Rovereto Teresa Primarta, born Partini de Neuhoff. Her family was deeply embedded in the Austro-Italian aristocratic and military networks of the era. By dedicating these volumes to her, Chiusole framed his artistic tour not merely as a scholarly textbook, but as a refined cultural offering to the high nobility of the Lombard-Venetian and Trentino borderlands.

Printed in Vicenza in 1782 by the Turra press, this compelling volume collects two complementary Grand Tour pocket guides: Itinerario delle pitture, sculture ed architetture più rare di molte città d'Italia and Le pitture, sculture ed architetture più rare di Roma. Designed for sophisticated eighteenth-century travelers, these treatises abandon generic geographical descriptions to focus strictly on artistic and historical collections and itineraries. The Itinerario traces a meticulous artistic path from the author's native Trentino region down to Naples, charting significant masterpieces across more than fifty Italian cities, while the following Roman guide provides a concise, structured breakdown of the most celebrated classical and Baroque monuments in the Papal capital.

The author, Count Adamo Chiusole (1728–1787), was himself a notable painter, art historian, and prominent intellectual from Rovereto. A member of the elite Accademia degli Agiati and admitted into the prestigious literary Accademia dell'Arcadia under the pastoral pseudonym Vergisio Sipiliano, Chiusole combined his practical understanding of artistic composition with Enlightenment empirical observation to create a highly curated travel companion.

Italian Union Catalogue, IT\ICCU\RMLE\008220; IT\ICCU\RMRE\001674; Fossati Bellani, 4456; Schlosser Magnino, p. 539; Borroni, 6162. 

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