Uria Llanos, Alfonso de.

Relazione overo Itinerario fatto… Per riconoscere li danni causati dalli passati Terremoti seguiti li 14. Gennaro, e 2. Febraro mdcciii. Nella Provincia dell’Aquila, e tutti li Luoghi circonvicini Per darne di essi distinta notizia al Sig. Vice-Re di Napoli.

Rome and Perugia, Costantini, 1703

Small 4° (204x133 mm). [2] ll. One 10-line animated initial on verso of the first leaf. Unbound. A very good copy. Very rare official account written by the auditor Uria Llanos in behalf of the Vice-King of Naples, of the seismic sequence that on 14 January and 2 February stroke L’Aquila district. The report describes in detail the geological effects of the earthquake, giving a dramatic accounting of the damage and the number of victims. The disaster had a great echo in the news of that time, and Uria Llanos’ writing, introduced by different titles, was also proposed by other printers. Unknown to Baratta. No copy in OCLC.

F. Petrucci Nardelli, Calamità e paure nella stampa popolare romana e laziale (1585-1721), “Archivio della Società Romana di Storia Patria”, 105 (1982), no. 56.
€ 1.250
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