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Decorated with 85 lithographic boards showing views from real, the Viaggio romantico-pittorico delle province occidentali dell'antica e moderna Italia is a rare work by the lawyer Modesto Paroletti, secretary of the temporary government in Turin in 1798-99, Carlo Botta's coworker in the Empire Legislature from 1807 to 1811 and founder of the Jacobin magazine Il Repubblicano piemontese. From the typography Festa in Turin, it is composed by a volume in-paper and an atlas containing the boards, illustrated by a group of artists: Festa, Gonin, Talucchi, Pedrone, Doyen, Nicolosino, Bigotti and others. The path of the travel starts from Savoy and continues in Valsusa, Cuneese, Cote d'Azurre and Liguria, Asti and Monferrato, Vercelli, Canavese, Ossola and lakes and Novara, also including never pictured places, a good historical and iconographic view of the Piedmont at the beginning of the '800s.
Also cured by Paroletti, known polygraph, in the Library it is possible to consult Turin et ses curiositès, ou description historique de toutce que cette capitale offre de remarquabledans ses monumens, ses édifices et ses environs (1819), guide completed by historical maps of the city in its development from XV century, and Turin à la portée de l'Etranger (1834), turistic guide in witch Paroletti provides to the print illustrations included in Vues de la Ville de Turin et de ses Environs (Reycend, 1825), rare gathering containing 16 papers with perspectical views engraved on copper by Luigi Valperga and Alessandro Rivelanti on the drawings by Marco Nicolosino: Turin squares, Superga, Rivoli castles, Stupinigi, Moncalieri and Racconigi. There is still the Descrizione dei Santuari del Piemonte (Turin, Reycend 1822), illustrated volume with colored boardsby Nicolosino, showing 32 sanctuaries of the reign, still including Savoy and Liguria in that period, from Orta to Varallo to Biella to Caraglio, from Avigliana to Bra, Oropa and Belmonte until Chiavari and Savona, from Turin Consolata to the abbey of Altacomba in Savoy. There is also the Description historique de la Basilique de Superga (Reycend, Torino 1808), enriched with good maps and lithographies.
From places to people: always by Paroletti's pen there is a Iconografia sabauda (Turin 1832), with lithographies by Gonin showing all the royal members of Savoy House from the progenitors to Carlo Alberto, and I secoli della Real Casa di Savoia (Turin 1827), two volumes decorated with beautiful genealogical boards well illustrated.