Camille Mauclair, Naples l’éclatante. Capri, Amalfi, Sorrente, Paestum, Pompei, Herculanum. Aquarelles de Pierre Vignal, Grenoble 1928 E-NAP 12-5280 raro VI Adopting the captivating title Naples l’éclatante, the book presents an overview of Naples and the beauty of its coast and islands, with a romantic and aestheticising literary approach. It is the work of Camille Faust, […]

Leopoldo Barboni, Sul Vesuvio. Ascensione tragicomica al cratere in eruzione (1878), Livorno 1892 E-NAP 10-4920 raro III Leopoldo Barboni (1848-1921), a teacher of Italian literature and headmaster in several high schools in Tuscany and Sicily, was the author of a recreational anthology of Italian prose and poetry for schools and of some humorous children’s books.

Il Vesuvio: strenna per 1869, pubblicata a pro de’ danneggiati dall’eruzione, Naples 1869 Be 4015-4691 raro III This small volume is part of the successful nineteenth-century publishing genre of the strenna (‘gift’): collections of various texts that were printed by publishers as the year-end festivities approached, so that they could be purchased as gifts. This

E. A. Classens de Jongste, Souvenirs d’une promenade au Mont Vésuve, Naples 1841  Fa 230-4415 raro IV In Classens de Jongstes’ Souvenirs d’une promenade au Mont Vésuve, impressions and information about Vesuvius and its surroundings are collected in a souvenir-like manner. The ‘souvenirs’ here, however, are not objects or illustrations, but texts. An introduction by

Zoë De Gray, Vues de mon voyage en Italie 1845, [Europa] 1852 Fa 230-4524 raro VII This is a private album in which numerous pictures, mostly color prints, are pasted. The title on the first page, “Views of my trip to Italy 1845” is signed “Zoë C.tesse de Gray”, a countess about whom we have

Album Naples, between 1835 and 1900 E-NAP 12-4350 raro V The album bears the English title “Naples” on the cover, from which it can be concluded that the 13 sheets with motifs of Naples and Pompeii were compiled by an English-speaking traveler. Only the four color prints of Pompeii are marked with references to the

Album (untitled), 1826 Zf 8400-4260 raro VI The extensive album was compiled by an unknown woman around 1826. It combines handwritten excerpts of text fragments, mainly by English, French and Italian writers, and pictures of various kinds. Most of these are prints, with the exception of two gouaches on two consecutive pages, each depicting an

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Italiänische Reise, II, Neapel, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1830 Fa 200-4300/2 raro III Goethe was no friend of volcanoes. As a convinced Neptunist, who basically regarded geological formations as oceanic sediments, he harboured an almost moral aversion to the volcanic formations produced in violent eruptions (“frightful and shapeless conglomeration of matter, which,