214 - [MANUSCRIPT]. GROBERT, Jacques-François-Louis, and CIVICI, Padre Renato. *Il Trionfo della castità* (oratorio). Followed by: *Napoleone al Danubio*.

[MANUSCRIPT]. GROBERT, Jacques-François-Louis, and CIVICI, Padre Renato. *Il Trionfo della castità* (oratorio). Followed by: *Napoleone al Danubio*. A beautiful Italian manuscript calligraphied in Reims in 1807, bringing together a play and a poem by Jacques-François-Louis Grobert (1757–1814) in honor of Napoleon I, in a lovely full calfskin binding of the period. Reims, n.p., 1807. In-16, full brown calfskin, smooth spine decorated with special fillets and antique urns with gilded metalwork, red leather title label, gilded scrolls framing the covers, guilloché headbands, gilded fillet on the edges, speckled edges (contemporary binding). 1 blank folio, 34 pages, 1 blank folio, and 4 handwritten blank folios, in cursive script in brown ink. Binding is scuffed; two holes on the jaws; some foxing, more pronounced on the first and last leaves; ink is slightly faded on the first 9 pages and from pages 32 to 34. An elegant manuscript from the First Empire period, written in Reims in 1807, bringing together two Italian literary works: - *Il Trionfo della castità*. Oratorio: A translation into Italian verse, in the form of an oratorio, of an adaptation of the legend of Saint Genevieve of Brabant composed in French by Father Renato Civici, as indicated by the handwritten note at the bottom of the list of characters. This two-part drama features the characters of Santa Genefa, Prince Sifrido, Gloraspe (Golo), and the servant Elvio, several allegorical figures (Innocenza, Calunnia, Castità), and a narrator (Testo). - *Napoleone al Danubio. Canzone dal Colonello Grobert*: A heroic poem in honor of Napoleon I and the imperial campaigns on the Danube, written by Jacques-François-Louis Grobert (1757–1814), a French artillery colonel, scholar, and man of letters appointed during the Empire to head the artillery depot in Reims. It was published in Paris in 1805. The two title pages bear the monogram “T.N.” The manuscript is perfectly legible and beautifully laid out.