Novelle di Autori Senesi BOUND WITH Il Pecorone di Ser Giovanni Fiorentino by Poggiali, Gaetano Domenico, 1753-1814, editor - 1833

Firenze, Tipographia Borghi e Compagni, 1833. Hard Cover. Octavo; [1105]-1281 pages, engraved frontispiece. Issued in series: Raccolta di Novellieri Italiani 1833-34, volume 2, #140. The "Autori Senesi" are Gentile Sermini (15th cent.), Pietro Portini (d. 1562), Bernardo Lapini (15th cent.), Scipione Nelli (d. 1612), Alessandro Sozzini (1518-1608), Alessandro Maris Bandiera (1699-1770). Bound with Fiorentino, Giovanni (14th cent.), Il Pecorone Di Ser Giovanne Fiorentino, Firenze, Tip. Borghi e Compagni, 1833, [1282]-1418 p. , This is an association copy: pasted inside the front cover is a label with the signature of Anna [Lindau] Vivanti, the mother of Annie Vivanti, writer and friend of Giosuè Carducci (1835-1907). Vivanti, at age 20, initiated correspondence in 1889 with Carducci (he was then 54) when she wrote to ask if he would read her poems. He was busy; she persisted. Pietro Pancrazi published their correspondence for the first time in "Un Amoroso Incontro Della Fine Ottocento: Lettere e Ricordi di G. Carducci e A. Vivanti" (Firenze, 1951, a copy of which we include), and called it "la piú viva testimonianza che ci resti di un incontro che fu dei piú famosi, tra poeti e artisti dell'ultimo Ottocento." Stock#OB367.