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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.
Large 4to. [29 x 21 cm], 23 pp., 5 folding plates. [including]: BOCCADIFFERO, Antonio. Delle Lodi di Luigi Cattolico Re delle Spagne. Orazione. Florence, Tartini e Franchi, 1724. 12 pp. Bound in contemporary stiff vellum, minor spotting to covers, which are a bit bowed. Minor finger-soiling in corners of a few leaves, otherwise, a wide-margined copy, excellent.
$2,850 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. Four (of the five) designs for the exterior and interior of the church were made by the Florentine architect Ferdinando Ruggieri (1687-1741). Ruggieri was very much the right man in the wrong place: although considered the most gifted architect of his generation, virtually no building took place in Florence during the prime of his career, and rather than leave the city (cf. Ferdinando Fuga or Alessandro Galilei), he had recourse to recording the city?s architectural patrimony in such works as Studio d'architeture civile (Florence, 1722-28; 2nd ed. 1755) or producing an important city plan of Florence. In other words, he built practically nothing, and the designs in the present work number among the 3 or 4 original projects which he successfully executed (see Millard, Italian p. 373). The plates show 1) a plan of the interior of the cathedral; 2) a frontal view of the façade, embellished with Ruggieri's hanging decorations; 3) an interior view of the cathedral's private chapels on one side, linked by a simple array of linking curtains; 4) a similar arrangement for the high altar; 5) the catafalque. The design of the last is the only one to show any concession to the influence of the Roman Baroque, with the baldachino showing dramatically curved cornices reminiscent of Borromini; not suprisingly, it was not produced by Ruggieri, but by Girolamo Ticciati. The text was produced by the antiquary Niccolo Marcello Venuti, best known for his important survey of the ruins of Herculaneum.
NUC lists Boston Public and Harvard; OCLC adds Oxford and V & A. We have also located a copy at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
* Berlin Kat. 3247; Olschki Choix 15,350; Lozzi 1952; Millard, Italian, p. 373 (mention).
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