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Hebrew Printing in Sabbioneta 1 AFFO, Ireneo - Schulz-Falster Rare ...
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25 COLPANI, Giuseppe. I Sensi. Sciolti di Giuseppe Colpani.<br />
[n.p., n.d., ca. 1780]. £500<br />
8vo, pp. engraved title, xvi; engraved title with vignette of a musician<br />
play<strong>in</strong>g a piano with a man and a woman sitt<strong>in</strong>g opposite, with<strong>in</strong> a<br />
classical border; later marbled wrappers.<br />
First edition of a charm<strong>in</strong>g poem on the senses, an appeal<strong>in</strong>g representation<br />
of enlightenment ideas <strong>in</strong> didactic verse, illustrated with a Wne engrav<strong>in</strong>g<br />
show<strong>in</strong>g a couple listen<strong>in</strong>g to music. Colpani mentions Descartes, Leibniz,<br />
Berkeley and Malebranche. The poem is dedicated to the Cammilla<br />
Comtesse Marulli. Colpani pubished a number of similar poems entitled<br />
La Danza, La Filosofia, La Toletta, etc., some of which were later published<br />
together <strong>in</strong> a collection entitled Poemetti e Lettere <strong>in</strong> versi sciolte.<br />
Colpani (1738–1822) was a friend of Beccaria and Verri and contributed<br />
to the enlightenment journal Il Caffe.<br />
Laterza II, p. 90; not <strong>in</strong> Lapiccirella, where another one of his works is listed (150);<br />
not found <strong>in</strong> OCLC or ICCU.<br />
The First Western Languages Edition<br />
of Comenius’ Janua L<strong>in</strong>guarum Reserata<br />
26 [COMENIUS, Johann Amos.] Porta L<strong>in</strong>guarum Tril<strong>in</strong>guis<br />
reserata et aperta. Sive Sem<strong>in</strong>arium L<strong>in</strong>guarum & Scientiarum<br />
omnium, Hoc est, Compendiaria Lat<strong>in</strong>am, Anglicam, Gallicam<br />
& quamvis aliam... [The Gate of Tongues Unlocked and Opened,<br />
or else a Sem<strong>in</strong>arie or seed-plot of all Tongues and Sciences. That<br />
is a short way of teach<strong>in</strong>g and thorowly learn<strong>in</strong>g with<strong>in</strong> a yeare<br />
and a half at the farthest, The Lat<strong>in</strong>, English, French, (and any<br />
catalogue fourteen