FMR: Stati del Centro (3 volumi)

Granducato di Toscana I. Città di Firenze (1737-1860) The Tuscan capital under the much-mourned dynasty of Lorraine, portrayed in a series of descriptions by curious visitors and the rulers themselves. From a surprisingly moralistic Marquis de Sade, who pontificates on the vices of the Florentines, to Peter Leopold, who passes judgement on the virtue of his subjects, while amazed foreigners judge him to be the most enlightened prince in Europe, to the 1848 revolution and the melancholy sunset of 1859, as seen from the throne in the memories of the last grand duke.

Title:	Granducato di Toscana I. Città di Firenze (1737-1860)

Pages:	127

Tables:	29 tavole applicate, 1 cartina geografica

Author:	D.-A.-F. de Sade, Pietro Leopoldo d’Asburgo Lorena, A. Lamartine, J.F. Cooper

Edition:	Italian

Translation:	Original translations of contemporary texts or by Gianni Guadalupi

Year:	1994

Edited by:	Gianni Guadalupi

Other Authors:	Furio Diaz

Dimensions: (cm)	17x26,5

Rilegato:	Black "Orient" silk with tipped-in colour plate, impressed gold lettering and library case

Photos by:	Crediti vari

Collazione:	2 pb, 10 pnn, 284 pn, 4 pnn

Iconographia:	Pictorial views of Florence and portraits of Grand Dukes and Duchesses

Paper:	Hand-made, "velata avorio", manufactured by Cartiere Magnani in Pescia

Printer:	ColorBlack

Granducato di Toscana II. Provincie (1737-1860) The Grand Duchy of Tuscany was passed from the Medici to the Hapsburg-Lorraines and fortune gave it series of cultivated, intelligent, provident and gentle rulers from this new dynasty. In the seventeen hundreds, thanks to the reforms of Peter Leopold, it became the most advanced state in Europe in, in spite of the grumbling of its more traditionalist inhabitants. In the eighteen hundreds it also managed to retain its enviable characteristic as an oasis of peace (while elsewhere the opposing violence of revolution and reaction raged) supported by the paternal benevolence of Leopold II, whose main preoccupation was to drain the Maremma and visit his experimental farms in straw hat and spats.

Title:	Granducato di Toscana II. Provincie (1737-1860)

Pages:	127

Tables:	22 tavole applicate a mano, 4 incisioni, 2 cartine geografiche

Author:	C. de Brosses, W. Beckford, G. Gorani, C. Dickens, Pietro Leopoldo d’Asburgo

Edition:	Italian

Translation:	Original translations of contemporary texts or by Gianni Guadalupi

Year:	1984

Edited by:	Gianni Guadalupi

Other Authors:	Carlo Mangio

Dimensions: (cm)	17x26,5

Rilegato:	Black "Orient" silk with tipped-in colour plate, impressed gold lettering and library case

Photos by:	Archivio Scala, Bertoni di Firenze, Saporetti

Collazione:	2 pb, 10 pnn, 284 pn, 4 pnn

Iconographia:	Military uniforms, portraits of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany and pictorial views of Siena

Paper:	Hand-made, "velata avorio", manufactured by Cartiere Magnani in Pescia

Printer:	ColorBlack

Repubblica, Principato e Ducato di Lucca (1700-1847) Tiny, tranquil and reasonably prosperous, thanks to its famous olive groves and wool, silk and cotton industries, the Republic of Lucca was sucked into the Napoleonic whirlwind and became a sort of toy principality given into the loving hands of Elisa Bonaparte, the wiser of Napoleon’s capricious sisters. It was later handed down to the Bourbons and governed by the bigoted but generous Marie Louise and then by the good but eccentric spendthrift Charles Ludovic, who made his stable boy prime minister and finally had to sell the State to Tuscany to pay off debts.

Title:	Repubblica, Principato e Ducato di Lucca (1700-1847)

Pages:	127

Tables:	22 tavole applicate a mano, 5 incisioni, 2 cartine geografiche

Author:	P.G. Camaiani, Montesquieu, C. de Brosses, C. Dupaty, G. Gorani

Edition:	Italian

Translation:	Original translations of contemporary texts or by Gianni Guadalupi

Year:	1995

Edited by:	Gianni Guadalupi

Other Authors:	Pier Giorgio Camaiani

Dimensions: (cm)	17x26,5

Rilegato:	Black "Orient" silk with tipped-in colour plate, impressed gold lettering and library case

Photos by:	Archivio di Stato di Lucca, Ghilardi (Lucca), Saporetti

Collazione:	2 pb, 10 pnn, 278 pn, 4 pnn, 2 pb

Iconographia:	Portraits of the Dukes of Lucca, of Elisa Bonaparte, pictorial views and prints

Paper:	Hand-made, "velata avorio", manufactured by Cartiere Magnani in Pescia

Printer:	ColorBlack