La fata galanti unpublished manuscript translation into English

by Giovanni Meli, W W. Barker

$1,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

110 pp. pen and ink on paper, fair copy manuscript in a neat hand. Folio. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Some light spotting to text, final text leaf worn and stained with some loss at margins. Item #301872 An unpublished manuscript English translation of Sicilian poet Giovanni Meli's La fata galanti The courteous fairy, 1762 . Meli 1740-1815 was a physician and poet who wrote in his native dialect of Palermo and promoted and collected

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