L'Adamo ovvero. Il mondo creato. Poema filosofico del sign. D. Tommaso Campailla,. cogli argomenti di ciascun canto tradotti in verso eroico latino dal sign. don Giuseppe Prescimone,. In questa seconda edizione corretto

Campailla, Tommaso

Published by nella stamperia di A. Rossi, Roma, 1737

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Folio, pp. vi, [24], 385, [3]; engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, folding engraved portrait of his patron, Francesco Bonanno del Bosco (with a 3" tear entering from the gutter - no loss), woodcut initials, typographic ornaments; a good, sound copy in contemporary limp vellum lettered in ink on spine. Harvard College Library bookplate and a discrete release stamp on the verso of the title page. Campailla (1668-1740) was an odd-looking autodidact from Modica on Sicily who fought syphilis rheumatism in a "modern" way, using the "guaiacum barrels" or "vapour stoves" that he had invented. He was also elected senator of his district seven times. In 1709 he published the first six songs of this philosophical poem Adam, or the World Created, then dedicated in its full (twenty songs), "to Charles VI of Austria, Emperor and King of Sicily." Olschki 18404 citing the octavo edition of 1757. Seller Inventory # 31656

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Title: L'Adamo ovvero. Il mondo creato. Poema ...

Publisher: nella stamperia di A. Rossi, Roma

Publication Date: 1737