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ITALY. Collection of documents pertaining to Italian figures. Description: Death certificate issued by the prior of the church of San Piero in Gattolino, authenticated by Count Louis de Durfort (Florence, 1787). Certificates (Pisa 1800, Ferrara 1803). Receipt for books issued by the librarian of Genoa, Philippe Galea (1807). 9 letters written by the bibliophile Gaetano POGGIALI, Livorno 1790–1802 (2), from the writer Giovanni FERRI (Naples 1806), from Daniele FRANCESCONI to Abbé Perazzolo, regarding a Jenson Bible on parchment (Venice 1806), from Philippe de LEGNANI regarding a financial transaction involving the Archduke (Vienna 1807), from Giovanni Francesco SIMON, abbot of Salvenero (1808), regarding the Accademia Italiana, from Count Laurent de Gregory de MARCORENGO (Paris 1810), from the Trivoli brothers (Florence, 1812), from the painter Giuseppe LONGHI (1815) regarding his engravings. 4 letters from Giuseppe CAPECELATRO, Archbishop of Taranto and Minister of the Interior (Naples, 1809), to Colonel Tessier in L’Aquila; from Ferdinando, Count MARESCALCHI (Paris, 1813), to Count Bergon; Stamatello SRONACHI, a native of Zante (Corsi, 1813); Leopold, Grand Duke of Tuscany (Castello, 1822), to an abbot regarding the publication of the “Poesie del Magnifico.” A significant collection of manuscripts and letters by the prelate and publicist Carlo GAZOLA (1804–1865): about fifty manuscripts and drafts of studies and articles, notably for the newspapers *Il Contemporeano* and *Il Positivo*, concerning Metternich, the Catholic Party, censorship, the reform of the Papal Statute, the law of war, epigraphy, Foscolo’s edition of Dante, a translation of Gibbon, the mysteries of the divine blood, the art of governing, Saint Francis Xavier, atmospheric dust that fell in Genoa in 1846, Davide Bertolotti’s poem *Il Salvatore*, etc. ; panegyrics on Saint Crescentius and Saint Philomena, an eulogy for the Marquis Biondi; dissertations and speeches at the Accademia di Religione Cattolica and the Accademia Tiberina (1840); travel notes (Benevento, Capri, Massa Lubrense); and some thirty letters or memoranda (1832–1846), addressed to the Pope, to cardinals and princes (including Pietro Odescalchi), to Pietro Capabianchi, Vincenzo Gioberti, Francesco Galvani, Monsignor Zamboni, Pio Mola, etc.
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