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Cesare Cittadella (1732-1809): Catalogo istorico de' pittori e scultori … Per Francesco Pomatelli,1782-1783

Cesare Cittadella (1732-1809)


Catalogo istorico de' pittori e scultori ferraresi e delle opere loro con in fine una nota esatta delle più celebri Pitture delle Chiese di Ferrara. Tomo I-IV In Ferrara, Per Francesco Pomatelli,1782-1783






§ 4 parts in 2 volumes, 8vo (12x18x3; 12x18x5 cm.); 1st vol.: title pge, 42, 197, [5] pp.(last 2 blanks); title page, vi, 246 pp. Signature: []1, A-O1-8, P1-10 (P10 blank); A-P1-8, Q1-4. 2nd vol.: title page, vi, 326, [2] pp.; title page, iv, 344, [4] pp., signature: []1, A-Y1-8, X1-7; A-Y1-8. Title pages within ornamental woodcut frame, signed Luigi Ughi, 25 engraved portrait of Ferrarese painters. Contemporary vellum, gilt title piece on spines. Title piece of the 1st volume missing, of the second one frayed. Quire N1-8 of the first part misbound after O8. Small stain on white lower margin of leaf D1 of the first part. Fine copy.



First edition. The author, Cesare Cittadella, was a priest and, according to Ughi, a poet of some reknown. Ornamental title pages frames signed Luigi Ughi. Ughi (the same painter or an homonimous?) describes the origin of the work: the memoirs of Carlo Brisighella came into into the hands of the Archpriest Girolamo Baruffaldi, who added his own supplement and on this basis Cittadella wrote the present work. The editorial vicissitudes of Brisighella works, however, seem to be more complicated than what reported by Ughi and Varese not only does not mention Baruffaldi Vite de' pittori (published much later, in 1844) as the basis of Cittadella’s work, but reports as the latter was published (according to Cittadella himself) precisely to remedy the absence (due to the non-publication of Baruffaldi’s work) of a work dealing with the unjustly ignored Ferrarese artists.


& Graesse II, p. 189; Luigi Ughi Dizionario storico degli uomini illustri ferraresi nella pietà, nelle arti, e nelle scienze colle loro opere, o fatti principali: compilato dalle storie, e da manoscritti originali Ferrara, eredi di Giuseppe Rinaldi 1804, p. 130; Novelli, Maria Angela Description of the Paintings and Sculptures of the City of Ferrara by Carlo Brisighella