BOLOGNESE-DIALECT ANTI-NAPOLEONIC BALLAD

[Sincerità Bulgneisa] Sincerità bulgneisa. [Bologna]. [c.1799].

Unlocated Bolognese-dialect ballad, most of it a litany of the depredations of the Napoleonic Cisalpine Republic, and its infringements on liberty. It ends on a point of hope, with a cheer for the Emperor (not the French Emperor, who had in any case not been made an emperor yet). We tentatively suggest this dates it to 1799, with Suvorov’s campaign at the head of the Austro-Russian army, that finished the first Cisalpine Republic.

Details

Pamphlet, 14.2 cms. x 9.8 cms., pp. [8]. Light browning, bound in contemporary blue wrappers, a contemporary label to front cover with number in manuscript, ‘46’.

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