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Second edition, very rare, of a charming volume, characterising problems with servants and labourers as symptoms of their submission to the devil, as part of the medieval devil tradition in German folklore and popular didactic literature. Glaser, a protestant theologian, identiWes a particular ‘Gesind’ or servant devil, who inXuences domestic servants, who were deemed too weak to reject his advances. In eight individual chapters Glaser discusses common problems, such as servants not showing up for work, servants preferring to work for godless masters rather than god-fearing ones; servants taking up employment, but then proving unreliable and making excuses for getting out of it; servants keeping working hours without getting any work done; or servants who after having Wnished employment bad-mouth their masters. In each case Glaser identiWes devilish inXuences, and cites relevant passages from the Bible to act against it. Although the belief in the devil’s inXuence waned in the eighteenth century, the prejudice against the motives of disaVected servants continued. The charming title page woodcut shows a kitchen scene, with the devil trying to seduce the maid, and broken crockery on the Xoor. There was an earlier edition printed by Feirabend, published in 1564 (Halle) and another one published in Weissenfels by Hantzsch (Munich only). VD16 G2184 (Munich, Berlin, Wolfenbüttel); Goedeke II, 481, 12; Hayn- Gotendorf II, 625; Grimm, Teufelsbücher 14 V; OCLC adds no further copies. Ballet and Theatre in Tuscany 46 GOUDAR, Sara. Relation Historique des divertissemens de l’Automne de Toscane ou Lettre de Madame Sara Goudar sur ce Sujet à Mylord ***. [1775?]. £1200 susanne schulz-falster rare books
8vo, pp. 46; uncut in contemporary decorative wrappers; lower wrapper frayed and with some marginal loss; a little dog-eared and spine chipped; an attractive copy. An interesting report on contemporary ballet and theatre by Sara Goudar, wife of the adventurer, political writer and friend of Casanova, Ange Goudar. The work is in the form of letters addressed to their acquaintance John Child, second Earl Tilney, who lived for over thirty years in Florence and Naples, and was very interested in music and dance. The letters were published in a number of editions, all very uncommon, between 1774 and 1776. After some general remarks on the respective merits of music, theatre, ballet and dance, Sara Goudar gives reviews of a number of performances in Florence, beginning with Perseus and Andromeda, with music by Giuseppe Gazaniga, and Corneille’s Le Cid, with details of the plot, leading artists and the orchestra. Practical information is also included, such as prices of tickets, visiting troupes, programmes of other theatres etc., followed by general gossip regarding Lord Hamilton. The work is of some importance as an early report on ballet, see Derra de Moroda 1124 and Magreil, A Bibliography of Dancing, p. 112. Mars 114; Childs, Casanoviana 445; no further copies found of this edition in RLIN and OCLC; two other editions with diVerent pagination were published the same year, OCLC lists copies at Yale, Chicago and Utrecht of one (pp. 64) and Utrecht and UCLA of the other one (pp. 35,1). Venetian Literary Debate 47 [GOZZI, Carlo.] Fogli sopra alcune Massime del Genio e Costumi del Secolo dell’Abate Pietro Chiari e contro a’ poeti Nugnez de’nostri tempi. Venice, Paolo Colombani, 1761. £480 8vo, pp. 176; title vignette, decorative initials and head- and tailpieces; uncut in contemporary limp boards, spine lettered in manuscript; extremities a little rubbed, else Wne. First edition of Gozzi’s Wnal shot in the long drawn out polemic with his contemporaries Pietro Chiari and Goldoni, about the role of the theatre and literature in Venice. Gozzi takes issue with Chiari’s Il Genio e Costumi del Secolo corrente, his lively picture of eighteenth century mores, customs and failings, with particular reference to the situation in Venice. Carlo Gozzi (1720–1806) satirises both Chiari and Gozzi as ‘poeti Nugnez’, based on the character in Gil Blas, as writers who take themselves too seriously, and who through their vulgar and entertaining plays subvert Venetian society. This work is in eVect a precursor to Gozzi’s later autobiography, his ‘Useless Memoirs of the Life of Carlo Gozzi written by himself and published out of humility’, Wrst published in 1797–99, where he again mounts his defence against his adversaries. The work also contains parts of his romantic poem Marfisa Bizzara, not published until ten years later. catalogue fourteen
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