Allegoria sulla guerra presente 1789 1790 1791Casti, Giovanni Battista, 1724-18031791Manuscript in an Italic hand of a satirical allegory on the events of the Russo-Turkish war, in which the various sovereigns are represented by animal figures. A key to the allegory follows the poem. The manuscript also includes a sonnet based on verse by Voltaire and a longer poem satirically comparing a poor student to a herring.Purchased from Bennett Gilbert on the Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mokarski Fund, 2002.text