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WITH TWO FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ENGRAVINGS MORRONA, ALESSANDRO DA. Pisa illustrata nelle Arti del Disegno. Engraved portrait of the author and 32 engraved plates, most folding. xxiv, 507, [3]; xxiii, [1], 559, [3]; xvi, 589, [3] pages, including errata leaf at end of each volume. 3 volumes. 8vo, 192x128 mm, later limp vellum with original wrappers bound in; light offsetting from portrait onto Volume 1 title, minor marginal dampstaining in some plates in Volume 2, including the Inferno (see below); uncut. Livorno: Giovanni Marenigh, 1812
Second edition, enlarged, of the first large-scale study of the art and architecture of Pisa from the Greco-Etruscan period to the 18th-century, originally published in 1787. The first volume is a general historical survey; the second contains biographies of noted Pisan artists, including the Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi; and the third is devoted to the churches of Pisa. Schlosser, pages 466, 483, 519 (describing this as one of the best works of its kind). this edition includes restrikes of two fifteenth-century engravings of which no early impressions survive, pulled from 2 sides of the original plate acquired by Morrona: St. Jerome in Penitence, with two Ships in a Harbor. 223x280 mm; wide margins, preserving deckle on 2 sides. Circa 1480-1500. The Inferno, after the Fresco in the Camposanto of Pisa. 223x280 mm; wide margins, preserving deckle on one side. Circa 1480-1500. The latter is one of the earliest reproductive prints known, and the former was probably also copied from a more important work now lost. Levenson et al., Early Italian Engravings from the National Gallery of Art 10-11; Landau & Parshall, The Renaissance Print, pages 162-63.
