Lot 15 | [Religion, Art Hystory] Maria Vergine dell'Impruneta,

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[Religion, Art Hystory] Maria Vergine dell'Impruneta,

First Edition

Casotti, Giovanni Battista. Memorie istoriche della miracolosa immagine di Maria Vergine dell'Impruneta raccolte da Giovambatista Casotti lettore d'Istoria sacra e profana nello Studio di Firenze. In Firenze : appresso Giuseppe Manni all'inseg. di S. Gio. di Dio, 1714 (In Firenze nella Via del Garbo : da Giuseppe Manni all'insegna di S. Giovanni di Dio, 1714).

4to, full vellum binding, 2 pt. (XV, [1], 318, [2], 231, [1]; 57, [3] p.). calcographic illustraton at title page of part 1.

2 full page plates, 10 folding plates by Cosimo Mogalli on a drawing by Alessandro Saller.



Important treatise, from a religious and artistic point of view, for the history of the sanctuary of Santa Maria dell'Impruneta containing "many documents and information on the history of Florence with the notes of Manni ..." (Brunet)

Among the large tables, of exquisite workmanship and suggestion, we remember those, folded several times, which illustrate the famous procession for the Virgin Mary.


The sanctuary of Santa Maria dell'Impruneta is located in the municipality of Impruneta in the province of Florence.

The Madonna dell'Impruneta, although not remembered for particular miracles, is at the center of a heartfelt and very devoted popular cult, so much so as to make the church one of the most important , and probably the oldest in Tuscany, among the Marian Sanctuaries of Italy.



References: Gamba, 2190; Graesse II, 61