MANZONI, Alessandro. I promessi sposi. Storia milanese del secolo XVII . Milan: Vincenzo Ferrario, 1825-26. 8°. 3 volumes. Half-titles, with the errata leaf at the end of volume III, PROFUSELY ANNOTATED BY NICCOLò TOMMASEO. (Some foxing.) Contemporary half vellum, black label on spines, spines decorated in gilt and black (very slightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF I PROMESSI SPOSI COPIOUSLY ANNOTATED BY THE CELEBRATED POET, LEXICOGRAPHER AND PATRIOT, NICCOLò TOMMASEO. This remarkable copy, believed to have been lost in 1897 (see below), bears marginal notes in Tommaseo's small and sometimes almost illegible hand on nearly every page with additional summaries of every chapter and a further summary at the end of each volume, forming the preliminary notes for his long article 'I promessi sposi' in Antologia , n.LXXXII, October 1827, edited by their mutual friend, Pietro Vieusseux. It is not known when Tommaseo (1802-1874), later to achieve renown as one of Manin's ministers in the short-lived Venetian Republic of 1849, first met Manzoni; but they were certainly acquainted by the early 1830's when Manzoni was hard at work on the revision of I promessi sposi (to appear in its definitive form in 1840 and very probably incorporating some of Tommaseo's observations) and when he was having difficulty in rendering the spoken language of the common people. Tommaseo had just published his Dizionario dei sinonimi della lingua italiana and it is known that he was one of Manzoni's literary circle and was approached by the latter for his advice. This and many other issues (some relating to I promessi sposi ) are recorded in the famous Colloquii col Manzoni that Tommaseo and Manzoni had in 1855. This present copy which Tommaseo read and annotated either on a cruise in the Dalmatian Islands or in the port of Ancona was later given by him to the marchesa Marianna Farinola, daughter of his old friend Gino Capponi (also an acquaintance of Manzoni's). At the end of the century G. Rigutini decided to publish the annotations but unfortunately was unable to find the volumes in the Farinola library and was thus forced to use a transcription, made some years earlier by Bencini at the behest of the Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze. Tommaseo's hand, the quality of the paper and the numerous cancellations made Bencini's task an extremely difficult one and thus account for the discrepancies between the original, the transcription and the printed annotations in Rigutini's work, a copy of which is included in the lot. Literature: G. Rigutini. Postille inedite di Niccolò Tommaseo ai Promessi Sposi (1897) E. Aubel. Niccolò Tommaseo poeta (1913) N. Tommaseo. Colloquii col Manzoni...annotati da Teresa Lodi (1929) A. Colquhoun. Manzoni and his Times (1954) (4)
MANZONI, Alessandro. I promessi sposi. Storia milanese del secolo XVII . Milan: Vincenzo Ferrario, 1825-26. 8°. 3 volumes. Half-titles, with the errata leaf at the end of volume III, PROFUSELY ANNOTATED BY NICCOLò TOMMASEO. (Some foxing.) Contemporary half vellum, black label on spines, spines decorated in gilt and black (very slightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF I PROMESSI SPOSI COPIOUSLY ANNOTATED BY THE CELEBRATED POET, LEXICOGRAPHER AND PATRIOT, NICCOLò TOMMASEO. This remarkable copy, believed to have been lost in 1897 (see below), bears marginal notes in Tommaseo's small and sometimes almost illegible hand on nearly every page with additional summaries of every chapter and a further summary at the end of each volume, forming the preliminary notes for his long article 'I promessi sposi' in Antologia , n.LXXXII, October 1827, edited by their mutual friend, Pietro Vieusseux. It is not known when Tommaseo (1802-1874), later to achieve renown as one of Manin's ministers in the short-lived Venetian Republic of 1849, first met Manzoni; but they were certainly acquainted by the early 1830's when Manzoni was hard at work on the revision of I promessi sposi (to appear in its definitive form in 1840 and very probably incorporating some of Tommaseo's observations) and when he was having difficulty in rendering the spoken language of the common people. Tommaseo had just published his Dizionario dei sinonimi della lingua italiana and it is known that he was one of Manzoni's literary circle and was approached by the latter for his advice. This and many other issues (some relating to I promessi sposi ) are recorded in the famous Colloquii col Manzoni that Tommaseo and Manzoni had in 1855. This present copy which Tommaseo read and annotated either on a cruise in the Dalmatian Islands or in the port of Ancona was later given by him to the marchesa Marianna Farinola, daughter of his old friend Gino Capponi (also an acquaintance of Manzoni's). At the end of the century G. Rigutini decided to publish the annotations but unfortunately was unable to find the volumes in the Farinola library and was thus forced to use a transcription, made some years earlier by Bencini at the behest of the Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze. Tommaseo's hand, the quality of the paper and the numerous cancellations made Bencini's task an extremely difficult one and thus account for the discrepancies between the original, the transcription and the printed annotations in Rigutini's work, a copy of which is included in the lot. Literature: G. Rigutini. Postille inedite di Niccolò Tommaseo ai Promessi Sposi (1897) E. Aubel. Niccolò Tommaseo poeta (1913) N. Tommaseo. Colloquii col Manzoni...annotati da Teresa Lodi (1929) A. Colquhoun. Manzoni and his Times (1954) (4)
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