Il Castello Dell'Ozio Poema In Due Canti Di Jacopo Thomson Recato In Verso Italiano detto Ottava Rima Da Tommaso Jacopo Mathias (Inglese) Membro della Società Reale e di quella degli Antiquarj di Londra, Pastore Arcade in Roma, Membro corrispondente dell'Accademia della Crusca in Firenze, e Socio corrispondente della Società Pontaniana in Napoli ec. ec.
Napoli: 1826 -, Presso Agnello Nobile libraio-stampatore Strada Trinità Maggiore n. 8.
Physical Description
[2], xviii, [19-]95, [3] p.; 215 mm. (Quarto.)
Contents
[T.p.] - Ai Lettori (by T.J. Mathias) - Canzone Funebre Per La Morte Di Jacopo Thomson ... Dall'Inglese Di Guglielmo Collins (by T.M.) - [Divisional t.p., 'Il Castello Dell'Ozio Poema In Due Canti In Ottava Rima.'] - [Text] - [Printer's advertisement].
Summary Note
James Thomson's poem, The Castle of Indolence, had been published in London in 1748. It satirised himself and his friends, living in the Castle of Indolence - which in the second canto is overthrown by the Knight of Industry.
The translator, T.J. Mathias, was best known in Britain as a satirist; but he was also a scholar of Italian and spent the last eighteen years of his life in Naples. According to a notice in The Athenaeum for 22 August 1835 the Neapolitans praised the 'purity and precision' of his Italian.
Provenance
An inscription in ink, 'Dall'Autore', has been pasted onto the top of the title page. Presented by the author in 1827 (acknowledged RA Council Minutes, VII, 198).
Copy Note
The inscription in ink, 'Non Divulgato', has been pasted onto the title page below the imprint.
Binding Note
Contemporary white paper wrapper, upper cover lettered 'Castello Dell'Ozio Poema In Ottava Rima In Due Canti.'; spine lettered 'Castello Dell'Ozio'.
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