Mie Prigioni, Silvio Pellico, Leather bound, 1835
$200.00
Begun in 1931 and published the following year, My Prisons is a memoir in which Pellico recalls his years of imprisonment, from the moment of arrest and detention in the Venetian Piombi prison, to the harsh experience he lived in the Spielberg prison . The work immediately met with extraordinary success, becoming the symbol of Austrian oppression, and is still today one of the essential books to understand the soul of the Italian Risorgimento.
12mo. 175pp. Gilt-decorated full calf leather. Early printing (1st printed in Turin, 1831). Tips rubbed. Loss at head of spine. Title page foxed. Mie Prigoni dated 1835. Addizioni dated 1837. In Italian. G.
Begun in 1931 and published the following year, My Prisons is a memoir in which Pellico recalls his years of imprisonment, from the moment of arrest and detention in the Venetian Piombi prison, to the harsh experience he lived in the Spielberg prison . The work immediately met with extraordinary success, becoming the symbol of Austrian oppression, and is still today one of the essential books to understand the soul of the Italian Risorgimento.
12mo. 175pp. Gilt-decorated full calf leather. Early printing (1st printed in Turin, 1831). Tips rubbed. Loss at head of spine. Title page foxed. Mie Prigoni dated 1835. Addizioni dated 1837. In Italian. G.
Begun in 1931 and published the following year, My Prisons is a memoir in which Pellico recalls his years of imprisonment, from the moment of arrest and detention in the Venetian Piombi prison, to the harsh experience he lived in the Spielberg prison . The work immediately met with extraordinary success, becoming the symbol of Austrian oppression, and is still today one of the essential books to understand the soul of the Italian Risorgimento.
12mo. 175pp. Gilt-decorated full calf leather. Early printing (1st printed in Turin, 1831). Tips rubbed. Loss at head of spine. Title page foxed. Mie Prigoni dated 1835. Addizioni dated 1837. In Italian. G.