ZATTA, Antonio. Celebrandosi I Felicissimi Sponsali Dell’ Eccellenze Loro Il Sig. D. Filippo Bernualdo Orsini d’Aragona Principe del Soglio Pontifico, e del S.R.I., XVI Duca di Gravina, Principe di Roccagorga, Grande di Spagna di Prima Classe, Cavaliere perpetuo della stola d’Oro di S. Marco, Patrizio Veneto, Genovese, Napolitano, e Gentiluomo di Camera intimo attuale di Ferdinando III Re delle due Sicilie, e la Sig. D. Teresa Caraccioli dei Principi d’Avellino, d’Atripalda ec. Ec. Poesie diversi.

Rare first edition of this collection composed in honor of the marriage of Filippo Bernualdo Orsini d’Aragona, Duke of Gravina (1742–1824) with Maria Teresa Caracciolo d’Avellino (1738–1789), celebrated on April 17, 1762.

This collection contains Italian poems by the publisher of the booklet, the bookseller Antonio Zatta, and by various authors (Giovangirolamo Agnelli, Pietro Agnese, Orazio Arrighi Landini, Camilla Asti Fenaroli, Antonio Tommaso Barbaro, Luisa Bergalli, Giovanni Bonaccioli, Reginaldo Curzio Boni [Argino Calcodonteo, P.A.], Anton Maria Borromeo, Marco Cappello, Giulio Cesare Cordara [Panemo Cisseo, P.A.], Saturio Pascual Del Campo [Crisatte Dasezo (Crisarte Daseio, Crisaste Danejo), P.A.], Durante Duranti, Giovan Fulvio Fea, Francesco Frediani, Francesco Furlani, Carlo Goldoni [“Sonetto”, p. lxxi], Gaetano Golt, Gasparo Gozzi, [Bernardo?] Laviosa [Cratileo Asterionense, P.A.], Domenico Felice Leonardi, Diamante Medaglia Faini, Cosimo Maria Mei [Floreno Misio, P.A.], Sebastiano Minghelli, Michele Giuseppe Morei, Gregorio Olivieri, [Gaspare?] Patriarchi, Omobono Pisoni, Giuseppe Maria Pujati, Francesco Torriceni, Camillo Varisco [Sivarco Epiziano, P.A.], Anton Maria Zanardi, Cristoforo Zapata de Cisneros, plus some anonymous or unidentified works (the “accademico Agiato” Lucerio, and Tita, Venetian boatman).
It also contains Latin, Greek, Hebrew (p. 66) (by Simon Calimani, rabbi of Venice) and Armenian (p. 64) pieces.

The 76 pages of the collection are decorated with about ten models of engraved borders, some bearing the mention “presso An. Zatta.”

The work is further illustrated with portraits of Filippo Bernualdo’s father, Domenico Orsini d’Aragona, widower, later made cardinal; of his mother, Anna Paola Flaminia Odescalchi (1722–1742); and of his deceased sister Giacinta (1741–1759), wife of Antonio Boncompagni Ludovisi, Prince of Piombino.

Precious copy preserved in its original gilt paper wrappers.