VITALE, Pietro. La felicita in trono sul'arrivo acclamatione, e coronatione delle Reali Maesta di Vittorio Amedeo duca di Savoja, e di Anna d'Orleans da Francia, ed Inghilterra Re' e Regina di Sicilia Gerusalemme e Cipro . Palermo: Agostino Epiro, 1714. 2° (334 x 238mm). Engraved frontispiece of the arrival of Vittorio Amedeo and Anne d'Orleans by Francesco Cichè after Antonino Grano, 19 plates, 17 of which are folding (including one double-sheet), by Francesco Cichè most after Paolo Amato ornamental woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. (Light spotting on title, small stain on 2 leaves and 2 plates, tears in 6 plates without loss, neatly repaired.) Old vellum over pasteboard, modern endpapers, modern title lettering on spine, speckled edges. Vittorio Amedeo, duke of Savoy, became king of Sicily in 1713 when the island was given to Savoy under the Treaty of Utrecht. This richly illustrated volume recounts the festivities occasioned by Vittorio Amedeo and his wife Anne's first visit to their new principality and their coronation at Palermo. The plates depict the royal cavalcade arriving in Palermo, four of the six triumphal arches erected around the city, the adornment of public and private buildings and palazzi, the celebratory fireworks, and commemorative medals, a plaque, and a marble sculpture erected on the Duomo. The author describes the extensive preparation and decoration of the city, as well as the procession and coronation itself; numerous laudatory poems and tributes close the volume. RARE. Not in Vinet, Berlin Kat. or Lipperheide.
VITALE, Pietro. La felicita in trono sul'arrivo acclamatione, e coronatione delle Reali Maesta di Vittorio Amedeo duca di Savoja, e di Anna d'Orleans da Francia, ed Inghilterra Re' e Regina di Sicilia Gerusalemme e Cipro . Palermo: Agostino Epiro, 1714. 2° (334 x 238mm). Engraved frontispiece of the arrival of Vittorio Amedeo and Anne d'Orleans by Francesco Cichè after Antonino Grano, 19 plates, 17 of which are folding (including one double-sheet), by Francesco Cichè most after Paolo Amato ornamental woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. (Light spotting on title, small stain on 2 leaves and 2 plates, tears in 6 plates without loss, neatly repaired.) Old vellum over pasteboard, modern endpapers, modern title lettering on spine, speckled edges. Vittorio Amedeo, duke of Savoy, became king of Sicily in 1713 when the island was given to Savoy under the Treaty of Utrecht. This richly illustrated volume recounts the festivities occasioned by Vittorio Amedeo and his wife Anne's first visit to their new principality and their coronation at Palermo. The plates depict the royal cavalcade arriving in Palermo, four of the six triumphal arches erected around the city, the adornment of public and private buildings and palazzi, the celebratory fireworks, and commemorative medals, a plaque, and a marble sculpture erected on the Duomo. The author describes the extensive preparation and decoration of the city, as well as the procession and coronation itself; numerous laudatory poems and tributes close the volume. RARE. Not in Vinet, Berlin Kat. or Lipperheide.
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