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Cover: Pietro Giannone (1676–1748): The Tragedy of a Historian and the Inquisition by Thérèse Ridley. Book cover with a detailed black-and-white engraved portrait of Pietro Giannone, depicted with curled hair, formal robes, and a composed expression. The title above presents his dates (1676–1748) and references his tragic conflict with the Inquisition. Cover image: Copper engraving from Sperandio Maffeis, Calcografia in Iconografia italiana degli uomini e delle donne celebri: dall’epoca del risorgimento delle scienze e delle arti fino ai nostri giorni (Milan: Antonio Locatelli, 1837), Municipal Library of Trento, CC0 1.0 Cover design: Jeevanjot Kaur Nagpal |
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Engraved eighteenth-century portrait of a man shown from the chest up, wearing a long curled wig and formal clerical or academic dress. The image is finely hatched, with careful shading around the eyes and face, and set against a plain background, typical of early modern printed frontispieces. |
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Printed engraved title page featuring a small oval portrait of Domenico Aulisio above elegant Italian script. The text identifies him as a celebrated jurist, philosopher and man of letters from Naples, with dates of birth and death, all laid out on a pale, minimally decorated background. |
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Antique engraved oval portrait of a seventeenth-century scholar with long dark hair and clerical collar, framed by Latin text and decorative inscriptions on aged paper. |
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Detailed engraved portrait of an early modern scholar framed within an ornate oval cartouche. The man wears a long curled wig and formal robes, with Latin text encircling the image and an elaborate sculptural pedestal below bearing an inscription praising his learning and writings. |
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Oil-painted formal portrait of a middle-aged man with long dark curly hair, shown against a dark background. He wears a black coat, white lace cravat and a red sash, with a reserved expression and subdued lighting that highlights his face and upper body. |
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Oval-framed engraved portrait of Michael Friedrich Combs, a cleric and bishop, shown from the waist up. He wears ecclesiastical dress and a short curled wig, with Latin text beneath the image identifying his titles and roles, all rendered in fine line engraving. |
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Title page of an eighteenth-century Italian book, ‘Dell’Istoria Civile del Regno di Napoli’ by Pietro Giannone, printed in Naples in 1723, showing decorative typography, aged paper, and a library stamp. |
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Painted portrait of an eighteenth-century scholar seated at a desk, holding a quill and writing on paper, with an inkstand and small chest beside him, set against a dark plain background. |
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Oil painting of an eighteenth-century military commander pointing towards a battlefield, dressed in armour and a sash, holding a baton and helmet, with troops and fortifications in the distance. |
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Engraved portrait of Johann Burckhardt Mencke, shown holding a letter in a study setting with books and writing implements, dressed in academic robes and a curled wig. |
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Engraved portrait of Friedrich Otto Mencke, depicted standing in a scholarly interior with books and papers, wearing formal eighteenth-century dress and a long curled wig. |
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Painted portrait of an eighteenth-century statesman standing beside a table with books, wearing a richly coloured coat and sash, with architectural elements and landscape visible in the background. |
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English title page of ‘The Civil History of the Kingdom of Naples’, published in London in 1729, printed in serif type with a detailed explanatory subtitle and translator credit. |
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Engraved oval portrait of Pietro Giannone, shown seated in scholarly dress with a book and gesturing hand, surrounded by a decorative frame with Latin inscriptions. |
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Formal painted portrait of an eighteenth-century nobleman wearing an ornate embroidered coat and sash, holding a paper, with a heraldic coat of arms displayed beside him against a dark interior backdrop. |
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Formal painted portrait of a young military officer in a green uniform with ornate embroidery, red sash and medals, standing in three-quarter view against a dramatic landscape with troops in the distance. |
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Back cover: Pietro Giannone (1676–1748): The Tragedy of a Historian and the Inquisition by Thérèse Ridley. |
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