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  • ACANTI AURELIANO (P. VALERIO CANATI)

    Published by AMMINISTRAZIONE PROVINCIALE DI VICENZA, 2001

    Seller: AL VECCHIO LIBRO, Bassano del Grappa, Italy

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    Ristampa anastatica dell'opera originale del 1754 sulla caccia col sistema del roccolo (aucupio), apprezzato non solo dai letterati per la sua valenza poetica, ma anche dagli enologi per l'importante apporto fornito allo studio della vitivinicoltura.Nei suoi circa 1700 versi è un inno agli oltre trenta vini prodotti nel vicentino dei quali vengono esaltati i sapori, descritte le suggestive zone di produzione, prevalentemente collinari. Con una tavola più volte ripiegata a fine volume. Pagg. XXIV, 67. Copertina cartonata muta. Mis mm 245x170.

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    Aureliano Acanti

    Published by Accademia italiana della cucina, 1972

    Seller: Studio Bibliografico Imprimatur, Cesate, MI, Italy

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    Brossura. Condition: ottimo. Misura cm 28 x cm 20, brossura editoriale in cofanetto di cartoncino, ristampa anastatica della pubblicazione del 1754 edita dall'Officina Tipografica Vicentina. Tiratura di 600 esemplari, questa è la copia 130. Pagine 67. Parzialmente intonso, ottimo stato di conservazione.

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    ACANTI, Aureliano (CANATI, Valeriano).

    Published by Venice: Nella stamperia Pezzana, 1754.,, Venice: Nella stamperia Pezzana, 1754., 1754

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    Condition: Buono (Good). Quarto (255 x 190 mm.), xxiv, 67 pages with allegorical vignette on title page, two more vignette in the text and a folding table, all engraved by Cunego. Two small defects on spine but a very good copy in ontemporary boards with manuscript title on spine. First edition of the earliest account of wines from the Veneto region, containing the first mention of Prosecco. One of the most important and rare works on the history of Italian wine, Il Roccolo ditirambo disguises itself as a dithyrambic poem in honour of Dionysus to sing the praises of Venetian enology.  The work is dedicated to Count Gelio Ghellini, patriarch of one of the most powerful families of Vicenza, on the occasion of the marriage of his daughter Elena to Count Simandio Chiericati and it is illustrated with a a fold-out engraving of a pastoral scene including vineyard plantations from count Ghellini's villa, as well as two small bucolic scenes at the beginning and end of the poem, engraved by Domenico Cunego from Verona.Publishing under the pseudonym and anagram Aureliano Acanti, the author Valeriano Canati (1706 - 1787) was an Italian priest of the Theatines order, as well as a poet, member of the Venetian Accademia Olimpica. Lyrically, Canati recounts the emergence of ?the son of Bacchus' from a subterranean cloister and his discovery of the idealistic rural scenery he encounters. Soon enough he encounters vineyards and plunges into a passionate and playful discovery of different wines, producing vivid descriptions of their colour, flavour, fullness as well as their effects on the drinker. Of note is the mention of Prosecco as a sweet and cloudy, but pure and healthy wine: ?Con quel melaromatico Prosecco.//Di Monteberico questo perfetto//Prosecco eletto ci dà lo splendido//Nostro Canonico. Io lo conosco//Egli è un po' fosco, e sembra torbido;//Ma pur è un balsamo sì puro e sano' (p.29).  Il Roccolo ditirambo is a fascinating work, both as a commemoration of late eighteenth century Italian enology and a historical record of colossal academic value.Extremely rare, only four copies have been auctioned in the past twenty-five years, and WorldCat records only three copies: The British Library, Staatsbibliothek Berlin, and Biblioteca intercomunale di Fiera di Primiero. Three facsimiles have been published, in 1971 by the Accademia italiana della cucina, Milan, in 2003 by Provincia di Vicenza, and in 2011 under ?La modernità del pensiero vitivinicolo di Aureliano Acanti nel Roccolo ditirambo (1754)? by Antonio Calò and Angelo Costacurta (Biblioteca La Vigna, Vicenza). Morazzoni 211. Book.