Catania distrutta Pri l’orrendu, e tirribili Tirrimotu successu ntrà lu Regnu di Sicilia all’11. di Innaru 1693. Composta in terza rima Siciliana da Tumasi Custanzu.
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Catania, Francesco Pastore, 1782
8° (175x106 mm). 16 pp. Woodcut ornament on title. Unbound, preserved in modern red marbled wrappers. A good, uncut copy, browned leaves, a few staining, slightly frayed the upper blank margin. On upper front author’s dedication, now almost unreadble.
Rare first edition of a third rime poem written in Sicilian dialect, inspired to the earthquake that on 11
January 1693 destroyed the city of Catania.
S. Nicolosi, Apocalisse in Sicilia. Il terremoto del 1693, Catania 1983; M. Condorelli, Un tirrimoti ranni. Lectures du tremblement de terre de Sicile de 1693, Catania 2012; Idem, Le tremblement de terre de Sicile de 1693 et l’Europe. Diffusion des nouvelles et retentissement in “dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica”, 2 (2013), pp. 139-166.
€ 2.000
