[FRANCESCO I, Duke of Parma.]

Orazione funebre e descrizione del solenne funerale dell'Altezza Serenissima Francesco I Duca di Parma ... celebrato in tributo d'ossequio dal Ducal Collegio Ancarano in Bologna, nella Chiesa di S. Ignazio Noviziato de' PP. Gesuiti, li xii Novembre MDCCXXVII.

Bologna, nella stamperia di Lelio della Volpe, [1727.] Small folio, pp. 28, very large folding frontispiece (400 x 560 mm.) engraved by Lodovico Quadri; fore-margin of title-page with paper flaw, some very light staining, but a good copy in recent marbled boards. First edition of a description of the funeral festivities held in Bologna for Francesco Farnese, duke of Parma and Piacenza (1678-1727) who was suceeded by his son Antonio. The fine catafalque, designed by Giacomo Campana, is shown in a richly decorated chapel of the Jesuit church St. Ignazio Noviziato. Not in Ruggieri; not found in RLIN or OCLC.

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