Shelfmark
Iaa2.2.55
Author
Uniform title
[Elegy written in a country churchyard. Polyglot]
Title
L'elegia di Tommaso Gray sopra un cimitero di campagna / tradotta dall'inglese in più lingue con varie cose finora inedite.
Publication, distribution, etc.
In Verona : dalla Tipografia Mainardi, M. D. CCC. XVII. [1817]
Physical description
175, [1] p. ; 23 cm
Language
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.
Note
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.
Note
Dedication signed by Alessandro Torri.
Note
Edition limited to 350 copies of which 15 on vellum paper--colophon.
Provenance
19th century inscription on title page, partly rubbed out: J. M[----] Gyll (?).
Provenance
20th century booklabel of D. J. Hall [David J. Hall].
Binding
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.
Copy-specific note
Ordinary paper copy.
Copy-specific note
Loosely inserted bookseller's particulars (not this copy).
Subject
Polyglot texts, selections, quotations, etc.
Genre/Form
Elegies.
Added entry--name
Torelli, Giuseppe, 1721 - 1781 translator.
Added entry--name
Torri, Alessandro editor.
Added entry--name
Zaehnsdorf binder.
Added entry--name
Tipografia Mainardi printer.
Added entry--place
Italy Verona.
Language code
ita eng lat heb fre ger eng grc eng
Identifier
B46804