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Lexikon des gesammten Buchwesens III 585; see Breslauer & Folter 24 (for the issue
of 1568); OCLC list one copy of the issue of 1583 at the Library of Congress, and
another of the issue 1592 at the Newberry Library; Harvard apparently has an issue
of 1568.
In Praise of Middle Class Civic Values
28.
[FREDERICK THE GREAT.] Discorso fatto per suo passatempo dall
M. di F. il. G. R. di P… Fantasianopoli, 1760. £ 500
4to, pp. 26, large engraved vignette on title; contemporary pale red
vellum; a fine copy, with manuscript note tipped in on front pastedown.
First edition in Italian of Frederick the Great's satirical funeral oration on the death of
the cobbler and shoemaker Jacob Mathias Reinold, translated from the French by the
Italian Enlightenment philosopher, the count Algarotti. Frederick used the occasion
to praise his workmanship, dedication and honesty, and, by extension, bourgeois
civic values. He combined it with an underlying criticism of the corruption of the
aristocracy.
Melzi 1848; rare, OCLC just lists one copy, at UCLA.
An Ode to the Sausage
29.
[FRIZZI, Antonio.] La Salameide, poemetto giocoso con le note.
Venezia, appresso Guglielmo Zerletti, 1772. £ 1000
8vo, pp. [iv] engraved frontispiece and title page, pp. [viii], 135, [1]
blank; finely engraved vignette to title page and at head of the main text;
uncut in the original buff boards; spine a little rubbed, and head and tail
of spine chipped; small private library stamp to foot of title; a good copy.
First edition of a charming work, a light-hearted eighteenth century heroic poem
dedicated to the 'salamina', the little sausage, by the Ferrara historian Antonio Frizzi.
The publisher, Zerletti, writes in his preface that while being occupied with printing
a ponderous theological work he has decided to present his customers with a not-soserious
offering. In his poem Frizzi utilises the traditions of the epic poem, but sings
the praises not of chivalry and love, but of the pork sausage. In a little aside he even
maintains that the 'salame' might have been invented by John Locke 'chi ne può
dubitar, che un tal prodotto non sia da Londra, donde a noi son tratte tante moderne
cose manufatte?' (canto quarto, xii). He discusses various types of sausages, with
quite detailed information on their production. In extensive footnotes reference is
made to the Vocabolario della Crusca, other authors, and the history of sausage
production.