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Il Bacco In Romagna by Piolanti, Giuseppe, a rare representative view of the 1839 - wine book.
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  • Il Bacco In Romagna by Piolanti, Giuseppe, a rare representative view of the 1839 - wine book.
  • Il Bacco In Romagna by Piolanti, Giuseppe, a rare view of the 1839 - wine book.
  • Il Bacco In Romagna by Piolanti, Giuseppe, a rare feature view of the 1839 - wine book.
  • Il Bacco In Romagna by Piolanti, Giuseppe, a rare feature view of the 1839 - wine book.
  • Il Bacco In Romagna by Piolanti, Giuseppe, a rare example from the work of the 1839 - wine book.
  • Il Bacco In Romagna by Piolanti, Giuseppe, a rare notable image of the 1839 - wine book.
  • Il Bacco In Romagna by Piolanti, Giuseppe, a rare sample view of the 1839 - wine book.
Il Bacco In Romagna

Romagna's wines, Redi-style verse, and a deluge of footnotes: cheers to excess.

Piolanti, Giuseppe

Il Bacco In Romagna
Ditirambo Dell'Ab. Giuseppe Piolanti Da Lui Stesso Corretto E Ampliato In Questa Nuova Edizione. Con Altre Poesie Del Medesimo.
Nunc Vino Pellite Curas. Hor. L.1 Op 7.

1839, Roma, Tipografia De' Classici

2nd Edition

$420 USD

Overview

First published in 1819 for the wedding of Count Girolamo Saffi, Il Bacco in Romagna reflects both Giuseppe Piolanti’s patriotic pride and his flair for excess.

Inside the book

The expanded 1839 edition opens with an earnest letter to the publisher, where the author excuses potential errors while invoking an impossibly vast pantheon of literary colleagues. The poem itself, modeled on Redi, celebrates Sangiovese, Aleatico, and other local wines with fervor, though one hopes it was not recited in full at the wedding. Piolanti adds hundreds of pages of notes in which he defines and comments on grapes such as Lambrusca, Vernaccia, and Balsamina, further embedding Romagna’s viticulture in classical and scholarly tradition. Supplemented with letters, madrigals, and epigraphs, the work sprawls beyond poetry into cultural anthology.

Why La Fenice chose it

How can one resist a wedding poem that turns into a full-blown encyclopedia of Romagna’s vines and muses? Between its scholarly footnotes, lyrical toasts, and endless tributes to Sangiovese, this book feels like a tipsy professor’s love letter to wine, learning, and local pride.
Condition Report

Pp. IX, 308, [2].

Original brown wrappers with decorative and typographic elements; small loss at lower margin of front cover. Some sections foxed, others pristine, overall not distracting. Despite some age-related flaws, an appealing copy, uncut and unopened, with wide margins. Quite rare.

Dimensions (inches): 9 1/4 x 6 x 1
About the author

Abbot Giuseppe Piolanti (Forlì, b. 1772), polemic writer and scholar; fierce anti-Risorgimento voice, author of medical and political treatises.

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