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 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
Autograph manuscript list of books from the library of Count Antonio d'Este on the Italian code of honor, with emphasis on the art of duelling. List includes works in support of, and in opposition to duelling. Among the 16th and 17th century authors represented are Andrea Alciati, Francesco Sansovino, and Torquato Tasso.
Description:
Purchased from Diana Parikian Rare Books on the David Wagstaff Memorial Fund, 1971.
Subject (Name):
Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550, Este, Antonio d', Count, fl. 1700, Sansovino, Francesco, 1521-1586, and Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595
Printed items include a broadside for a 1718 production of "Lo Scanderbeg", by Antonio Vivaldi and Giuseppe Serantoni; a "Descrizione, e Tabella dei Palchi del nuovo teatro di via della Pergola" dated 6 June, 1755; and an "Avviso" concerning the costs of the 1787 renovation. and The papers consist of letters, memoranda, expense accounts, notarial documents, copies of contracts with impresarios, and printed broadsides documenting the theatrical activities of the Accademia degli Immobili in the eighteenth century. Many of the documents are connected to Francesco or Giuseppe Frescobaldi, and relate to their administrative duties for the Accademia. The collection includes extensive documentation of performance contracts, expenditures, and payment disputes for productions of several works by Metastasio and others; an account of expenditures for the Carnival season of 1752-53; and of the extensive renovations of the Teatro della Pergola in 1755 and 1787.
Description:
Ex libris Giannalisa Feltrinelli. Purchased from Robin Halwas on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund, 1999., Most bound in contemporary vellum over paper boards, with goatskin tie., and The Accademia degli Immobili was founded under the patronage of Cardinal Giovanni Carlo de' Medici in 1649 for the promotion of drama, music, and dance. Revived under the protection of Giovanni Gastone de' Medici in the early eighteenth century, the Accademia reorganized, taking full possession of the Teatro della Pergola and establishing it as a theater for public performances of operas and musical spectacles.
Subject (Geographic):
Florence (Italy)--History--1737-1860
Subject (Name):
Accademia degli Immobili, Feltrinelli, Giannalisa--Bookplate., and Frescobaldi family
Subject (Topic):
Impresarios--Italy, Italian drama--18th century, Opera--Italy--18th century, Theater management--Italy, and Theater--Italy--Florence
Each pt. has engraved frontispiece by Salomon Kleiner (reworked by Peter Mayer beginning with v. 3, pt. 1); it depicts Maria Theresa, to whom work is dedicated. Plates chiefly by Kleiner, Mayer, Johann Baptist Haas and Georg Nicolai, with some by A. Dischler, Michel d'Ixnard, Franz Rosenstingl, Rugendas, Leopold Schmittner, Anton von Weinkopf. Etched and woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials., Errata in each vol., Includes indexes., t. 1. Sigilla vetera & insignia cum antiqua, tum recentiora varii generis -- t. 2. Nummotheca principum Austriae -- t. 3. Pinacotheca principum Austriae -- t. 4. Taphographia principum Austriae., and Vol. 5 never appeared. Vols. 2-4 each have 2 pts. with special t.p.'s.
Publisher:
Prostant apud Leopoldum Joannem Kaliwoda, Aulae Imperialis typographum,
Subject (Geographic):
Austria--Kings and rulers, Austria--Kings and rulers--Medals, Austria--Kings and rulers--Portraits, and Austria--Kings and rulers--Tombs
Subject (Name):
Felner, Johann Georg, Gerbert, Martin, 1720-1793, Haas, Johann Baptist, 18th cent., Heer, Rustenus, 1715-1769, Kaliwoda, Leopold Johann, fl. 1734-1775, Kleiner, Salomon, 1700-1761, Kloster St. Blasien, Mayer, Peter, 1718-1800, and Nicolai, Georg, 18th cent.
Silence (Block Poem), 1975. Autograph manuscript poem in Italian accompanied on each leaf by two rectangular collages of text in non-Roman alphabets covered by gauze.
Description:
Luciano Caruso (1944-2002) was an Italian experimental poet, editor, and art critic based in Naples until 1976 and in Florence thereafter. He was a prominent practitioner of Italian visual poetry ("poesia visiva").
Subject (Name):
Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry
Subject (Topic):
Experimental poetry, Italian--20th century, Poets, Italian--20th century, and Visual poetry, Italian--20th century
Two diverse cryptic alchemies written by one copyist and linked by two series of alchemical emblems. The first text, Philosophia hermetica, in Italian verse, is linked to Federicl Gualdi. The second text, Compendiolum de praeparatione auri potabilis veri, is attributed to M[arcus] E[ugenius] Bonacina.
Alternative Title:
Compendiolum de praeparatione auri potabilis veri and Philosophia hermetica
7 leaves of unfoliated binder's blanks inserted at both beginning and end., Armorial bookplate of Frederick North, fifth Earl of Guilford (1766-1827)., ff. 1-12 foliated in ink in a hand later than the manuscript, the remaining leaves with modern pencil foliation., ff. 17 apparently a contemporary insertion., and On parchment binder's blanks.
Subject (Name):
Duveen, Denis I., bookplate and North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, bookplate.
Formed by long sheets of paper featuring hieroglyphic-like characters written in ink by Caruso over existing teletyped text.
Description:
Luciano Caruso (1944-2002) was an Italian experimental poet, editor, and art critic based in Naples until 1976 and in Florence thereafter. He was a prominent practitioner of Italian visual poetry ("poesia visiva").
Subject (Name):
Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry
Subject (Topic):
Experimental poetry, Italian--20th century, Poets, Italian--20th century, and Visual poetry, Italian--20th century
