Rime alla Sacra Real Maestà di Carlo Emanuelle Re di Sardegnia, Gerusalemme, e Cipro &c. Per le sue felicissime nozze con l'Altezza Reale di Elisabetta Teresa di Lorena

WITH A SONNET BY LAURA BASSI AND OTHER NOBLEWOMEN - NO COPIES OUSIDE ITALY

4to (220x175 mm). 61 pages, [1] and an engraved frontispiece depicting the Savoy coat of arms. Lower margin cut short, occasionally touching the catchword and the quire signature at the bottom. Later marbled wrappers.

A good copy of this collection of poems published by Aliberti on the occasion of the wedding of Carlo Emanuele III of Savoy and Elisabetta Teresa di Lorena. It contains compositions by nobles and academics, mostly from Bologna and Modena, including Count and Senator Cornelio Pepoli, Count and Senator Giacomo Isolani Lupari, Marquis Pietro Campori, the Imola nobles Camillo Zampieri and Valerio Troni, Dr. Giuseppe Manfredi, Abbot Giambattista Vicini, Count Alessandro Fava Accademico Inestricato, and Abbot Giuliano Cassiani. It also contains four compositions by noblewomen (Countess Maria Vittoria Delfini Dosi, Signora Veronica Cantelli Tagliazucchi of Modena, Signora Margherita Lapi Mezzamici of Bologna, and Countess Marianne Teresa Mattioli Carrati) and a sonnet by Laura Bassi, public reader, more precisely Laura Maria Caterina Bassi, a famous physicist and mathematician, one of the first women to graduate in Italy and, in the modern age, the first woman in the world to obtain a university chair.

Italian Union Catalogue, IT\ICCU\VIAE\009546.

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