LEANTI ARCANGIOLO
Prospetto del palazzo senatorio di Siracusa.
Date: Palermo,1761
Siracusa
Cod 5848
Subject: Siracusa
200,00 €
Copper engraving, 180x280 mm. Rare view, engraved by Antonio Bova. Taken from Lo stato presente della Sicilia o sia breve, e distinta descrizione di essa...accresciuta colle notizie delle isole aggiacenti (Palermo, Francesco Valenza, 1761). A rare work, published in a single edition, a fundamental account of the most noteworthy things in Sicily, written by Leanti, poet and author of plays, who was appointed royal historian, founder of the Accademia del buon Gusto in Palermo in 1764. Good copy with traces of the editorial folds, left trimmed at the copperplate stop.
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