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1646 FERRARIO, G. - Lima Romana Piorum In Hortis.
Lima Romana Piorum In Hortis.
| Maker: | FERRARIO, G. | |
| Date: | Rome, Scheus, 1646 | |
| Colored: | In attractive colors. | |
| Size: | 302 x 197 mm / 11.9 x 7.8 inches | |
| Condition: | Ample margins. Very good and dark impression. Etching with in upper right margin plate nr.335. | |
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Giovanni Battista Ferrari was born into a prosperous Sienese family in 1583 and entered the Jesuit Order in Rome in 1602. His subsequent career included a Professorship of Hebrew and Rhetoric at the Jesuit College in Rome, a position as horticultural advisor to the papal family, and the authorship of a number of important books. He also became a close associate of the scholar Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657) who was an advisor to the Barberini family. Through this connection, Ferrari joined an important circle of men of science in Rome, and was appointed to manage the new garden at the Barberini Palace which was unique as a showplace for the newest and rarest plants from the distant regions of Asia, Africa, and America. The cultivation of new specimens led Ferrari to the subject of botanical nomenclature, and he became a leading 17th century source for nomenclatural definition.
Ferrari?s greatest works were De Florum Cultura (1633) and Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum cultura (1646).
Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum cultura, resulted directly from his close relationship with Cassiano dal Pozzo, one of Rome?s leading scholars and patrons of natural history studies. Along with many other scholars of his time, Cassiano was intensely interested in the citrus family, and he not only corresponded extensively on the subject, he collected specimens from many quarters. In its final form, Hesperides was a collaborative work even though Cassiano?s name is not included in the authorship. He was the source of much of the information for the book, while Ferrari was the editor, composer, and author. Cassiano also managed the financing of the publication.
Hesperides includes eighty botanical plates which were the work of seven important artists of the time and the engravings were done by Johann Friedrich Greuter and Cornelis Bloemaert.
Giulio Ferrario (1767-1847)
Giulio Ferrario's work "Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire was a 19th-century multi-volume / language world encyclopedia of culture, vividly illustrated, almost all finely hand-colored. The work was one of the most decorative aquatint publications published in Italy. The text was written by Giulio Ferrario and the plates engraved by Raineri, Gallo Gallina, etc.It was published in Milan simultaneously in Italian and French. The complete French title was "Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la religion, des arts, sciences et usages de tous les peuples anciens et modernes d'après les monuments de l'antiquité et accompagné de dessins analogues au sujet par le Docteur Jules Ferrario."
The Italian language edition was published 1816/1817-1834 under the title: "Il costume antico e moderno o storia del governo, della milizia, della religione ... " and contains, in addition, an Indice generale, 1829 (1 volume) and "Aggiunte e rettificazioni all'opera il costume antico e moderno ...", 1831-1834 (3 volumes). These 4 volumes in Italian are not part of the French-language edition. Italian language edition totals 21 volumes.
The work was a subscription series of 143 fascicules containing variants to plates and imprints.
Contributors: Giulio Ferrario (1767-1847), of Milan, was an intellectual, publisher, printer and librarian. His monumental work 'Il costume antico e moderno' contains over 1,500 hand-colored plates depicting clothing from the classical period through the early 1800s, as well as many architectural drawings and engravings. Gallo Gallina (1778 - 1837) was an Italian painter and engraver, active in a Neoclassical style. He was also active as a lithographer. He became the custodian of the Archaeological Museum in the Brera Academy. He painted a canvas for the baptistery of the Duomo di Cremona.
References: Colas 1050. Colas 1051 (Italian language). Colas 1049 (French language, variant to the plates & imprints). Hiler p.311. Lipperheide Ad.7 (Italian language with imprints).
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