Rococo in Italy.
People - literature - art. (1st ed.). Warsaw - Lublin - Lodz 1915. publ. Gebethner and Wolff. 8 (large), pp. [4], 582, [1], illustrations on separate plates, cloth binding, gilt lettering on spine. cover broch. original front cover preserved.
Unwarranted rubbing of the binding, some occasional soiling of the pages, otherwise good condition. Illustrations protected by tissue paper. Includes, among others: Guiding currents; Rococo in Venice; Gozzi brothers; Casanova; Rome in the second half of the 18th century; Artists in Rome; Lord Byron in Italy. Kazimierz Chlędowski (1843-1920) - Polish writer, memoirist, cultural researcher, satirist, cultural historian, storyteller, popularizer of Italian culture, official of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Highly regarded are his diaries from 1843-1901, as well as his works on cultural history. In them he conveyed the result of his many years of museum and archival research in Italy, describing the religious, political, cultural, literary and scientific problems of Italy from the 15th to the 18th centuries.
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