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[DANCE OF DEATH] Anonymous. ANONYMOUS DRAWING, attributed to Francesco di Giovanni in graphite on verso. c. 1750-1800.

Highly finished preparatory design for a fresco or tapestry connected to the Albani family, whose coat of arms appears under the left-hand arch crowned with a cardinal's hat.
$11,500


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Funeral Oration for Lorenzo de Medici


[MEDICI, Lorenzo de] BIENATUS, Aurelius. Oratio in funere Laurentii de Medicis habita. [Milan, Philippus de Mantegatiss, c. 1492].

Rare, first edition of this funeral oration for Lorenzo de Medici, the greatest art patron of the Renaissance, delivered in Naples by a Sicilian Archbishop.
$18,500


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With four Designs by the Florentine Architect Ferdinando Ruggieri


RUGGIERI, Ferdinando / VENUTI, Niccolo Marcello. Esequie di Luigi Cattolico Re delle Spagne Celebrate in Firenze nella Chiesa S. Maria Novella de PP. Predicatori Il dxvi di Ottobre 1724. Florence, Stamperia si S.A.R. per li Tartini,. e Franchi, 1724.

Rare first and sole edition of this funeral festival program commemorating the death of King Luis I of Spain in Santa Maria Novella in Florence on February 26, 1724.
$2,850


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A TYPOGRAPHICAL TOUR DE FORCE WITH MACARONICS & CALLIGRAMS


[FÊTES] / ROCABERTI, Joseph. Lagrimas Amantes de la Excellentissima Ciudad de Barcelona ... en las Magnificas Exequias, que celebrò á las Amadas, y Venerables memorias de su difunto Rey y Señor, Don Carlos II. Barcelona, Juan Pablo Marti for Francisco Barnola, 1701.

Scarce first edition of this curious funeral fête for Carlos II, generally regarded by posterity as the most stupid and ineffective of the Hapsburg kings of Spain, whose reign (1665-1700) saw the utter dismemberment of the kingdom by Louis XIV
$4,500


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