1849 · London & New York
by (Gallenga, Antonio Carlo Napoleone.) Mariotto, L.
London & New York: John Chapman & Geo. P. Putnam, 1849. Two volumes. 8vo. 200 x 125 mm., [8 x 5 inches]. [iii]-lvix, 479 pp.; [iii], [l], 444 pp. Bound in embossed original green cloth, gilt title on spine; slight spotting on the boards, gilding on the spine a bit faded, otherwise a very good, tight copy of an uncommon book.
First edition in English; the American Issue from the London sheets, which were originally printed in 1848. Antonio Gallenga (1810-1895) was an Italian patriot, historian and newspaper writer whose career spanned the century when Italy and much of Europe struggled to emerge from the yoke of foreign repression and control. He was an exile in France, an expatriate in England, a visitor to New York, and a traveler who documented many of the movements which helped to form the boundaries of modern Europe. He spent most of his career in England where he established himself as an important member of the Italian community in London. His first book, Italy, General Views of its History and Literature (1841) was well received and he began writing newspaper articles on the Risorgimento in Italy and the revolutionary movements taking place in other European centers. L[uigi]. Mariotto was a pseudonym that he used for many of his early published books and articles.
Italy, Past and Present, published by associates in both London and New York, was written at a time of significant interest by the English and American publics in the Italian quest for unification. It begins with a detailed history of Italy with emphasis on the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Gallenga spreads a wide net describing the literature, art, and politics of these two periods and focuses much attention on contributions to Italian culture by Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Rafaele, Michelangelo, Ariosto, Tasso and Galileo. Volume Two looks to the 18th and 19th centuries and follows much the same pattern, focusing on Mazzini, Foscolo, Manzoni, Pellico, etc., and finishes with a rather detailed chapter on the Women of Italy. Only a handful of copies in American libraries and scarce in the trade.
Toni Cerutti. Antonio Gallenga. An Italian writer in Victorian England. London [etc.]: Oxford University Press for the Univ. of Hull, 1974. . (Inventory #: 1314)
First edition in English; the American Issue from the London sheets, which were originally printed in 1848. Antonio Gallenga (1810-1895) was an Italian patriot, historian and newspaper writer whose career spanned the century when Italy and much of Europe struggled to emerge from the yoke of foreign repression and control. He was an exile in France, an expatriate in England, a visitor to New York, and a traveler who documented many of the movements which helped to form the boundaries of modern Europe. He spent most of his career in England where he established himself as an important member of the Italian community in London. His first book, Italy, General Views of its History and Literature (1841) was well received and he began writing newspaper articles on the Risorgimento in Italy and the revolutionary movements taking place in other European centers. L[uigi]. Mariotto was a pseudonym that he used for many of his early published books and articles.
Italy, Past and Present, published by associates in both London and New York, was written at a time of significant interest by the English and American publics in the Italian quest for unification. It begins with a detailed history of Italy with emphasis on the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Gallenga spreads a wide net describing the literature, art, and politics of these two periods and focuses much attention on contributions to Italian culture by Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Rafaele, Michelangelo, Ariosto, Tasso and Galileo. Volume Two looks to the 18th and 19th centuries and follows much the same pattern, focusing on Mazzini, Foscolo, Manzoni, Pellico, etc., and finishes with a rather detailed chapter on the Women of Italy. Only a handful of copies in American libraries and scarce in the trade.
Toni Cerutti. Antonio Gallenga. An Italian writer in Victorian England. London [etc.]: Oxford University Press for the Univ. of Hull, 1974. . (Inventory #: 1314)
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