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Messina e la sua storia

354 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, maps ; 25 cm.

Spezie, speziali e farmacisti nella storia di Messina / Gina Carleo.

The barra is described by Smyth, op. cit., pp. 121-122. It is a mobile structure about 40 feet high and supported by iron machinery. At the lowest level is the Dormition of the Virgin with living people ("youths of good families") playing the apostles. Above are revolving structures to which living children are attached representing cherubim: the sun and the moon (the side with the sun is shown in the print), a mass of clouds supporting an azure celestial sphere, and at the summit a man representing God supporting a girl representing the Virgin Mary

The car of the procession of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Messina. Aquatint by W. Daniell, 1823.

ccclxxxiv, 56 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of folded plates ; (4to)

Istoria e teoria de' tremuoti in generale ed in particolare di quelli della Calabria, e di Messina del 1783 / Di Giovanni Vivenzio.

Supposed (by Le Bas?) to show "the ancient port of Messina", possibly owing to Louis XIV's support for Messina's secession from Spain. Left foreground, a man seated on a chest plays a guitar to a woman, while two other string instruments are placed to one side; to right of them, a pedlar sells a clay pipe to another man. Centre, two men fighting, watched by two (Spanish?) men, one of whom draws his sword. Right, barrels being brought ashore in a rowing boat from a French ship in the harbour. A clock on the left gives the time as 7 o'clock, interpreted by the Louvre as sunset rather than dawn

1 print : engraving and etching ; image 43.8 x 60.4 cm

A sea port: palatial buildings on the left, ships on the right, and people on the shore in the centre. Engraving by J.Ph. Le Bas and Petit after Claude Lorraine.

4 volumes, plates (some folded, some color) : illustrations, maps, portraits (engravings) ; 51 cm (folio)

Voyage pittoresque, ou, Description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile.

Addendum to the proclamation of 20 June 1743 limiting trade and travel by land and sea coming to Florence due to an outbreak of plague in Messina.

Aggiunta al bando di proibizione, e sospensione do commercio de' 20. Giugno 1743 ... dato in Firenze, dall Uffizio di Sanità di Firenze li 2. Luglio 1743 / Urbano Pierattini, Cancelliere.

Early English books online

A True and perfect narrative of the late dreadful famine in the great and populous city of Messina in the straits : where vast multitudes of men, women, and children, have miserably perished in the streets, for want of food ... : with a description of the place, the occasions and manner of their revolting last summer from Spain, and putting themselves under the protection of the crown of France ... / extracted from several letters from Milan, Naples, and Palermo.

1 print : wood engraving, with watercolour

Geography: a mirage in the straits of Messina. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.

"[...] The ruins of the Palazzo Alcontes and the church and convent of the Theatines, which form the subject of the view annexed, display the havoc of one of the most memorable catastrophes recorded in history. The weather in the year 1782 seemed to forbode some commotions in the volcanic country of Calabria, and on the 1st of January 1783, a slight shock of an earthquake was felt. On the 7th of the same month, and on the 1st and 28th of March, three other earthquakes took place. In the course of this year, no less than 949 shocks were noticed, in 1784 there were 151, and they did not entirely cease till the end of the year 1786. These extended more or less over a circle 140 miles in diameter, in the central part of which it was most violent. Of 440,000 persons inhabiting this district, near 30,000 perished beneath the ruins, and near 6,000 died of the disease that ensued. The town of Casal Nuovo was so completely destroyed in an instant, that every vestige of it's streets was confounded in one undistinguishable heap of ruins, and 4,000 persons perished in it; though many were dug out, and some even unhurt. At Scylla, nearly opposite Messina, a vast promontory, falling into the sea, caused such a flux and reflux of the waters, that about 2,500 persons, who had repaired for security to the beach, were at once washed into eternity. During the summer of this memorable year a dry fog overspread all Europe, occasioned no doubt by the immense body of exhalations arising out of the bowels of the earth."--Mayer, loc. cit.

1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; image and border 23.8 x 32.9 cm

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Spezie, speziali e farmacisti nella storia di Messina / Gina Carleo.

The car of the procession of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Messina. Aquatint by W. Daniell, 1823.

Istoria e teoria de' tremuoti in generale ed in particolare di quelli della Calabria, e di Messina del 1783 / Di Giovanni Vivenzio.

A sea port: palatial buildings on the left, ships on the right, and people on the shore in the centre. Engraving by J.Ph. Le Bas and Petit after Claude Lorraine.

Voyage pittoresque, ou, Description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile.

Aggiunta al bando di proibizione, e sospensione do commercio de' 20. Giugno 1743 ... dato in Firenze, dall Uffizio di Sanità di Firenze li 2. Luglio 1743 / Urbano Pierattini, Cancelliere.

Geography: a mirage in the straits of Messina. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.

Messina: ruins of the city after an earthquake. Coloured aquatint, 1809, after L. Mayer.

Peste al confine : l'epidemia di Messina del 1743 / Giuseppe Restifo.

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Spezie, speziali e farmacisti nella storia di Messina / Gina Carleo.

The car of the procession of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Messina. Aquatint by W. Daniell, 1823.

Istoria e teoria de' tremuoti in generale ed in particolare di quelli della Calabria, e di Messina del 1783 / Di Giovanni Vivenzio.

A sea port: palatial buildings on the left, ships on the right, and people on the shore in the centre. Engraving by J.Ph. Le Bas and Petit after Claude Lorraine.

Voyage pittoresque, ou, Description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile.

Aggiunta al bando di proibizione, e sospensione do commercio de' 20. Giugno 1743 ... dato in Firenze, dall Uffizio di Sanità di Firenze li 2. Luglio 1743 / Urbano Pierattini, Cancelliere.

Geography: a mirage in the straits of Messina. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.

Messina: ruins of the city after an earthquake. Coloured aquatint, 1809, after L. Mayer.

Peste al confine : l'epidemia di Messina del 1743 / Giuseppe Restifo.

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