Author: Rosa, Salvator; Salvini, Anton Maria.
Title: Satire Di Salvator Rosa Con le Note D'Anton Maria Salvini Ed Altri.
Description: Londra [Livorno]: Si vende da Tomaso Masi, e Comp. in Livorno, 1787. 1787. - Octavo, softcover bound in eighteenth-century original tan & gray decorative wrappers with a plain paper spine. There is some darkening & creasing to the edges of the wraps with a piece out of the front edge of the front wrap. There are small pieces out of the tail of the spine. vii & 377 pages. Illustrated with 2 copperplate engravings: a frontispiece portrait and a pictorial title. There is some light creasing, chipping & foxing to the page edges. Overall, a very attractive copy with the text clean & bright. Very good.

The frontispiece is engraved by Ogenus [ ?] after a self-portrait painted by Salvator Rosa. The pictorial title is engraved by Luigi Pizzi [1759-1821].

Salvator Rosa [1615-1673] was an Italian Baroque painter, poet and printmaker who worked in Naples, Rome and Florence. As a painter, he is known as unorthodox and extravagant and as a rebel and a romantic. Although his satires were fairly widely read during his lifetime, they were published posthumously. In these verses, Rosa appears as a champion of the poor and downtrodden and of moral virtue and the Catholic faith, but launches savage attacks on oppressive governors, aristocrats and artists, including painters and poets [Dante is declared to be "obsolete"].

The text is in Italian. Very good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; SATIRE; SATIRICAL VERSES; SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PAINTER; 17TH CENTURY POET; PRINTMAKER; SATIRE DI SALVATOR ROSA Con le Note d'Anton Maria Salvini ed Altri; COPPER PLATE ENGRAVINGS; SELF-PORTRAIT; ENGRAVER; LUIGI PIZZI; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; 18

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