Papers related to Gabriele D'Annunzio and the seizure of Fiume
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 13
Image Count:
24
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Letters, typescripts, printed material, photographs, postcards, and memorabilia concerning Gabriele D'Annunzio's role in the 1919 seizure of Fiume. Contents include a typescript of D'Annunzio's "La Preghiera per i cittadini;" a typescript draft of a constitution for Fiume by Alceste De Ambris; photcopies of reports on the activities of the American Henry Furst in Fiume; a facsimile of a 1920 letter from D'Annunzio to Benito Mussolini; letters and papers related to Fioravante Martinelli's membership in the Unione Spirituale Dannunziana; photographs and postcard photographs of D'Annunzio in Fiume; and several postage stamps, medals and pins. The collection also contains an undated typescript of Cesare Cerati's "Tre amici."
Description:
Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938), Italian author and World War I aviator, led the seizure of Fiume in September 1919. After unsuccessfully promoting the city's annexation by Italy, D'Annunzio proclaimed it the Reggenza Italiana de Carnaro, and himself its "Duce" (Leader), but he and his followers were driven out by an Italian bombardment in December, 1920., Printed catalog and folder list in box., and Purchased from Arengario Studio Bibliografico on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2006.
Manuscript on paper of the writings of Christopher of Paris (pseudonym for a Venetian exile), including his major work, Lucidario, with its supplementary alphabet, plus three letters.
Description:
Binding: Original plain parchment wrapper without ties, back with three raised bands, soiled and worn. Plain edges., ff. 1r-167r correctly paginated 1-333 and the pagination used in the detailed description, the remainder unnumbered, of ff. 170 originally, single leaves apparently canceled originally and cut away by the copyist after ff. 162 and 164, as
noted in the detailed collation, but not noted in the description as the original pagination is consecutive., Mary Mellon, acquired from William Gannon (bookseller), New York, 1941; Mellon MS 145. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., Rubricated, headings often in red., and Script: Written by a single good italic hand, sometimes hasty toward the end of the codex.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Alphabet books, Italian letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of a group of shorter works by Christopher of Paris (pseudonym), probably a Venetian alchemist. With John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie.
Description:
Binding: Sixteenth century. Brown calf, the covers blind-ruled to a rectangular pattern, the large center rectangle diagonally ruled to a lozenge pattern, a single quatrefoil impressed in blind in each of the rectangles and lozenges so formed, edges partly renewed and rebacked in the style of the period of the binding with compartments formed by three double raised bands, a gold stamped title label in the second compartment from top reading: "CHRISTOPHE | DE PARIS | - | RUPESCISSA | MANUSCRIPTS | ITALY | 15TH C". The endpapers are modern insertions, though of old paper, and the binding, while of the period of the manuscript, probably had no original connection with this codex., Denis Duveen; Mellon MS 45, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., In Italian and Latin., No headlines, headings and some capitals in pale red., Script: Written by a single scribe in a late humanistic cursive hand sloping slightly to the right., and Watermarks: 1) anchor with ring atop the shank, all within a circle; 2) plain and ill-drawn anchor with thick flukes, the top of the shank forming a small, neat cross with the short stock. Both probably Italian papers, not directly comparable to the varieties illustrated by Briquet.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript 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.
Description:
Purchased from Bennett Gilbert on the Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mokarski Fund, 2002.
Subject (Name):
Voltaire, 1694-1778--Influence
Subject (Topic):
Allegory, Italian poetry--18th century, Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792, and Verse satire, Italian
Doni, Gio. Battista (Giovanni Battista), 1593 or 1594-1647
Published / Created:
MDCXL [1640]
Call Number:
Monteverdi 5
Image Count:
9
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Author's presentation inscription to Malatesta Albani. Unidentified armorial bookplate. Shelfmark in ms. on t.p. verso: M VIII 4. Accompanied by 3 leaves of ms. notes. From the Albi Rosenthal Collection of Monteverdi and the birth of opera. and Signatures: [dagger]⁸(-[dagger]1, blank?) A-3F⁴ 3G².
Publisher:
Nella stamperia d'Andrea Fei,
Subject (Name):
Doni, Gio. Battista (Giovanni Battista), 1593 or 1594-1647. Compendio del trattato de' generi e de' modi della musica. and Rosenthal, Albi, 1914-2004
Subject (Topic):
Music, Greek and Roman, Music--Acoustics and physics, and Musical instruments