Manuscripts, autograph documents, science and medicine essays, letters, relics and photographic evidence, atlases, will be the desired objects which collectors will be able to obtain at Bloomsbury’s next special auction in Rome. The appointment with the auction of books, autographs and prints, is scheduled for 16th June at Palazzo Colonna, in Via della Pilotta 18, and will be held in two sessions: the first one at 11 am and the second at 3 pm.
In particular the first session, with its 80 lots, will be rich and very interesting, focusing the attention on extraordinary authentic manuscripts. The documents of important figures like Ada Negri, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Galieo Galilei, Vittorio Puntone, Margherita Sarfatti and Benito Mussolini will represent the corolla of the renowned Camuccini collection. It is a collection of 71 autographs in good state which go from the 15th to the 19th century, embracing various disciplines like literature, architecture, history of art, put together during the 19th century by Pietro Camuccini, brother of the famous painter Vincenzo Camuccini. Donatello, Bramante, Raffaello, Michelangelo, Correggio, Giulio Romano, Pollaiolo, Masaccio, Beccaria, Marc’Antonio Colonna, Giacomo della Porta, Carlo Goldoni, Scipione Maffei, Mazzini, Pellico, Paganini are just some of the famous names which emerge in this exceptional documental testament. With regard to painters, sculptors and architects, the documents mainly correspond to payment receipts, in particular the very precious and rare autograph by Michelangelo, piece of significant historical and philological relevance, as referred to the long and disputed case of the monument for Pope Julius II. The collection had already been sold at Christie’s auction in Rome on 21st May 1996 for 120 million Lire. Now it appears as lot 41 at Bloomsbury for an estimate of 65,000-70,000 euros.
Poetry lovers will inevitably be attracted by the personal archive of Ada Negri, lot 45 (estimate 55,000-65,000 euros): a substantial collection of valuable letters, documents and photos for the philological studies on the Italian poetess, who was the first woman to be admitted among the Academics of Italy in 1940.
The love between Gabriele D’Annunzio and his last partner Luisa Baccara is treasured in a wide and variegated collection of letters which will be proposed with an estimate between 30,000 and 35,000 euros. In the documents of various nature – paper and photographic – which make up the collection, the prophet-poet expresses his most confidential and familiar tones (less sumptuous compared to the ones used with other women) towards Luisa Baccara, the talented musician who abandoned the stage to share her art only with the man she loved, staying by his side until he died. The collection would result even more complete for who wishes to win another lot (estimate 10,000-12,000 euros): a series of relics which belonged to Laura Baccara, including some clothes and various accessories, shoes and pochettes.
Relevant in the first auction session also the autograph letters by Margerita Sarfatti to Benito Mussolini from 1922-23 (estimate 20,000-25,000 euros), the Puntoni archive and the collection of letters with Pascoli, comprising about 1200 documents (estimate 25,000-30,000 euros), and a unique copy from the 18th century of a manuscript by Maurolico Francesco, the Theodosii sphaericorum elementorum libri III (estimate 15,000-18,000 euros), evidence of Galileian and Copernican interest.
In the second session a certain interest will be stirred by some incunabula, in particular the Supplementum Chronicarum, a rare third illustrated edition, finely decorated, and updated to 1490, by the Agostinian Jacobus Philippus Foresti Bergomensis (estimate 10,000-12,000 euros). The first Latin edition of Galileo Galilei’s Dialogue will be proposed with an estimate ranging between 8,000 and 10,000 euros, while a geographic atlas in 2 volumes by Giovanni Maria Cassini, geographer and cartographer responsible for the invention of a cartographic projection in his name, is proposed for 14,000-15,000 euros.
Very accessible some Japanese prints, with a top estimate of 1,200-1,400 euros belonging to Mount Fuji seen from the bridge of Ryogoku by Hiroshige, renowned representative of 19th-century Japanese engraving art, very appreciated in Europe.
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