Iaa2.2.55
[Elegy written in a country churchyard. Polyglot]
L'elegia di Tommaso Gray sopra un cimitero di campagna / tradotta dall'inglese in più lingue con varie cose finora inedite.
In Verona : dalla Tipografia Mainardi, M. D. CCC. XVII. [1817]
175, [1] p. ; 23 cm
Preliminaries in Italian, followed by original English text of Gray's Elegy and multiple translations by various authors into Italian, Latin, Hebrew, French, German, and Greek, with annotations.
Parallel English/Italian verse texts with translation by Giuseppe Torelli, supported by a Italian prose version below by Domenico Trant; further Italian verse versions by Melchiorre Cesarotti, Giuseppe Gennari, Marco Lastri, Antonio Buttura, Paolo Giuseppe Baraldi (blank verse and prose) and Michel Angelo Castellazzi; French verse versions by Kérivalant and J.L. Grenus; a German verse version by Ludwig Theoboul Kosegarten; Latin verse versions by Giovanni Costa, d'Anstey, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri and (Latin and Hebrew) Giuseppe Venturi; and a Greek verse version by Giosafat Cipriani.
Dedication signed by Alessandro Torri.
Edition limited to 350 copies of which 15 on vellum paper--colophon.
19th century inscription on title page, partly rubbed out: J. M[----] Gyll (?).
20th century booklabel of D. J. Hall [David J. Hall].
Later 19th-century half black morocco; black pebble-grained cloth boards; gilt-lettered spine with five raised bands; marbled endpapers; gilt text block edges. Binder's stamp of Zaehnsdorf.
Ordinary paper copy.
Loosely inserted bookseller's particulars (not this copy).
Polyglot texts, selections, quotations, etc.
Torelli, Giuseppe, 1721 - 1781 translator.
Torri, Alessandro editor.
Zaehnsdorf binder.
Tipografia Mainardi printer.
Italy Verona.
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