Rare books, manuscripts and ephemera from five centuries

On taking the veil 

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[NUNS]. RIME alla nobil donzella Caterina Giordani patrizia pesarese In occasione che veste l’Abito Religioso di San Domenico. In Pesaro: Per Niccolò Degni, MDCCXXVIII [1728]. £350

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FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [vii], [i] blank, 80, [4] tavola; device of inverted triangle of stars on title-page, and numerous woodcut head- and tailpieces; stain to gutter of first gathering, and a few leaves foxed and browned, but largely clean and crisp; in recent patterned paper over boards.

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Uncommon collection of poems by a range of local authors marking the taking of the veil by a young Pesaro noblewoman, Caterina Giordani, as she entered the Dominican convent of Santa Caterina in the city, taking the name Rosa Caterina.

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Almost eighty different writers are represented; while the majority are from Pesaro, we also find representatives from Ferrara, Ravenna, Pistoia, and even as far away is Naples. The bulk of the poems are sonnets, but the volume opens with a longer canzonetta, by the poet and physician Camillo Brunori (1681-1756), alongside further canzonette later on. 

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Not in OCLC; SBN records copies in Cremona, Ferrara, Fano, Pesaro, and Carmagnola. 

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