Al nobile signor co. Cristoforo di Rovero cavaliere de' SS. Maurizio e Lazzaro in occasione delle sue nozze colla nobile signora co. Zenobia D'Onigo Zacco.

Bassano del Grappa: [Remondini], 1781. Only edition. Very Good. Octavo (22 cm); xiv, [2] pages. Typographic ornaments in text. Bound in hand-combed paste-paper stiff wraps by Remondini. Slight discoloration at upper right corner of upper wrap, else about fine. Paste-paper reference: Remondini: Un editore del Settecento, , p. 130, #60.

A little book of gratulatory sonnets, madrigals, and anancreontics written for the occasion of the wedding of Count Cristoforo di Rovero and Countess Zenobia d'Onigo, at the count's villa at San Zenone, near Bassano. The villa was the site of something like a salon, as di Rovero regularly invited collections (truncated) of notable guests for extended stays in the country. Giuseppe Remondini, the head of the great printing, print-making, paper-decorating, and dyeing concern based in Bassano, was a close friend and frequent guest. Others in the circle included mathematicians, architects, public intellectuals, and the poet Jacopo Vittorelli, whom we suspect wrote the verses in this little pamphlet. Giulio Sartorio Sartori's name appears as the toastmaster. Certainly Remondini printed it on his best paper stock, and bound it in one of his signature decorated wrappers. (Inventory #: 6341)