Giulietta e Romeo nella illustrazione di Giovanni Battista Gigola per Ferdinando III d’Asburgo-Lorena

Name: Giulietta e Romeo nella illustrazione di Giovanni Battista Gigola per Ferdinando III d’Asburgo-Lorena
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By Chiara Parisio

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This work examines one of the most important and popular works of Gigola’s career, the decoration of the so-called Giulietta e Romeo or Historia novellamente ritrovata di due nobili amanti by Luigi da Porto, written around 1524. Gigola’s work was printed in seven copies on vellum in 1819 and decorated with elaborated illuminations between 1819 and 1825. Only four copies survive: this volume focuses on the copy produced in 1822 for Ferdinand III of Hapsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany. A brief account of Gigola’s life and work is followed by an examination of the novel of Giulietta e Romeo from a literary and historical perspective. A pictorial analysis of the Giulietta e Romeo is then given followed by a discussion of the historical and cultural context in which the work for Ferdinand III of Hapsburg-Lorraine was conceived. All the illustrated pages are reproduced and the comments of Alessandro Torri (1826) are reported. The illuminations produced for the copy made for Lord Spencer are also illustrated for comparison, along with the comments of Thomas Frognall Dibdin who was his librarian (1822).

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Publication Date:: 2002
Publisher:: Grafo edizioni
Languages:: Published: Italian
ISBN10:: 8873855636

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