Collection of poems by Fusinato, together with letters by Mazzini, Cavour, Cesare Battisti, Bixio and others. Various formats.
$ 10,152 / 9.500 €
(86317)
Collection of poems by Fusinato, together with letters by Mazzini, Cavour, Cesare Battisti, Bixio and others including by three poems by Arnaldo Fusinato, of which two are probably autograph: 'L'ultima ora di libertà' (eleven 8-line stanzas beginning "E' fosco l'aere E' l'ora muta"), together with and 'Le due madri Ballata', and an early copy of 'Brindisi', 8 pages, folio, Lazzaretto Vecchio, 19 August 1849 and later--together with letters and notes by Mazzini (in French, about the "manifeste Sicilien" and Hungary, 1 page, London 17 June 1852), Cavour (to the Chevalier De Bry, about "la supression du bagne de Villefranc[h]e", 2 pages, 8vo, autograph envelope, postmarked [?]1854), Nino Bixio and Cesare Battisti, 15 items, various sizes, 1838 to c.1900
"L'ultima ora di libertà" would appear to be an early title for Arnaldo Fusinato's celebrated poem L'ultima ora di Venezia, (or "La bandiera bianca"), one of the classics of the Italian Risorgimento.