Ferrante Loffredo, Le antichità di Pozzuolo et luoghi convicini, Naples 1580 E-POZ 142-1800 raro II Benedetto di Falco, Descrittione dei luoghi antiqui di Napoli e del suo amenissimo distretto, Naples 1580 E-NAP 11-1800 raro II The volume on display encloses two fundamental works of the early Neapolitan periegesis, focusing on ‘antiquities’ and on the amenity […]

Camillo Tutini, Memorie della vita, miracoli e culto di san Gennaro martire, vescovo di Benevento e principal protettore della città di Napoli, Naples 1856 Hh 8546-4560 raro III The book on the life, miracles and cult of St. Gennaro was one of the first books by Camillo Tutini (1594-1666), a Neapolitan priest, scholar and politician.

Nicola Partenio Giannettasio, Aestates Surrentinae, Naples 1696 Be 4015-2960 raro II This is the first of three tomes on the seasons: Aestates, Autumni, Ver. Dedicated to the Archbishop of Taranto, Francesco Pignatelli, the volume is divided into three books of eight chapters. The narration of the work is preceded by three unnumbered papers, containing the

Giuseppe Macrino, De Vesuvio, Naples 1693 Be 4015-2930 raro II Written in Latin, the work collects documentation from antiquity to 1660, describing the shape of Vesuvius and its mutation through eruptions, its vegetation and fauna, the consequences for the population, as well as phenomena such as the transformation of volcanic ash into glass (“granatiello”, p.

Anonymous, Relazione dell’incendio del Vesuvio seguito l’anno 1682 dalli 14 di agosto alli 26 del medemo, Rome 1682 Be 4015-2820 raro IV This is a brief account of the eruption that began on August 14, 1682, bound together with another report concerning a storm that occurred a few months earlier in the Land of Bari.

Giulio Cesare Recupito, De Vesuviano incendio et de terræmotu Calabriæ nuntius, Rome 1670 Be 4015-2321/b raro IV Published in Rome a few decades after the author’s death, this volume brings together two treatises in Latin by the Neapolitan Jesuit Giulio Cesare Recupito (1581-1647), both of which dedicated to Cardinal Francesco Barberini. Pages 5 to 85

Giulio Cesare Capaccio, Il forastiero. Dialogi […] nei quali, oltre a quel che si ragiona dell’origine di Napoli […] si tratta anche de’ re […] sito e corpo della città […] con particolari relationi per la materia politica, Naples 1634 E-NAP 10-2341 raro IV Il forastiero is a voluminous work by the well-known scholar and

Giovanni Battista Mascolo, De incendio Vesuvii, Naples 1633 Be 4015-2330 raro III This work by Giovan Battista Mascolo (1582 or 1583-1656), a Jesuit active in Naples in the first half of the seventeenth century, is a treatise in Latin on the eruption of Vesuvius on 16 December 1631, and is dedicated to the bishop of

Gianbernardino Giuliani, Trattato del Monte Vesuvio e de’ suoi incendi, Naples 1632 Be 4015-2323 raro IV Giuliani’s treatise is one of the many popular volumes that spread throughout the Kingdom of Naples after the eruption of 1631. The work, dedicated to Gaspar de Guzmán, opens and closes with 11 poems on a Vesuvian theme, but

Vincenzo Bove, Il Vesuvio acceso, Naples 1632 Be 4015-2322 raro II Il Vesuvio acceso by the publisher and bookseller Vincenzo Bove, active in Naples between 1605 and 1654, belongs to the genre of printed notices formerly the main means by which news was transmitted during the modern age throughout Europe. As attested by the dedication