VERSE AND PROSE FOR CELEBRATED WOMAN DANCER AND POET
[Bandettini, Teresa] [Lucca, Accademia degli Oscuri]: Prose e rime in onore della celebre Sig. Teresa Bandettini Lucchese, fra gli Arcadi Amarilli Etrusca. Recitate nell' Accademia degli Oscuri di Lucca il dì XIII. d'Ottobre MDCCXCIV. Lucca, presso Francesco Bonsignore, 1794.
First edition, copy in contemporary brocade wrappers, of this volume for learned Lucca poet and dancer Teresa Bandettini (Bandettini Landucci) (1763-1837) - celebrating her enrolment into the city's Accademia degli Oscuri. She had the same year also been accepted into Rome's famous Accademia dell' Arcadia. Bandettini was famed for her extemporaneous verse, which is referred to in poems here. One piece, presented in Italian, Latin and Greek (98-99) addresses a complaint she made of herself that she had no Greek and imperfect Latin. Another subject of verse is a marble bust that the academicians of Lucca had had made of her. In Rome, Bandettini had been painted by Angelica Kauffmann (Scolari Sellerio).
Description
One volume, 20.4 cms. x 13.7 cms., quarto, pp. 112. Signed: a-o4. Roman, italic and Greek letter. Light browning, small ink stain to title-page, bound in brocade paper over card, the paper with copper leaf applied (mostly faded to green). The brocade paper rubbed, worn away in places, with slight loss and tears to spine.
Bibliography
SBN: IT\ICCU\UBOE\029062. OCLC shows copies in Berkeley, Chicago, Illinois and Strasbourg.
Arianna Scolari Sellerio, 'BANDETTINI, Teresa'. Dizionario biografico degli Italiani 5 (1963).