Castel Sant'Angelo in Roma
Roma: La Libreria Dello Stato / Istituto di Architettura Militare, 1930. 147/600. Blue cloth/boards; 3/4 Vellum with gilt ruling and lettering. Small, coin-like, raised gilt image of Castel Sant'Angelo within front cover title block. 617 pp. with 287 bw illus. Good+ (Clean, bright, unmarked contents. Cloth covers pocked. Binding lightly bumped. 3 areas of darkening to fore edges of closed pages, from page turning. Bookplate of Paul/Gabriele Geier on FEP - see note). Item #154870
Colophon Note: This book, published by the National Library (Libreria dello Stato) and curated by the Arts Council, was printed in the press of the Istituto Poligrafico Dello Stato in 600 numbered copies on special Maslianico paper. Text in Italian. Written in two parts: Castello Sant'Angelo Attraverso la Storia (Castello Sant'Angelo throughout History); and Escursione Storico-Artistico per il Monumento (A Historic-Artistic Tour of the Monument). Each section with several sections; index of illustrations; index of names. NOTE ON DATE OF PUBLICATION: The date listed on the title page is "Anno IX E.F." from when Mussolini changed time/dates to correspond with his system of the Fascist Era (Era Fascista). Anno IX corresponds to October 1930 - October 1931. (Castel Sant'Angelo is the mausoleum of Emperor Hadrian and his family. It towers above the Tiber River in Rome.) This particular volume was once owned by art donors Paul and Gabriele Geier. Paul Geier was with the US Embassy in Rome, where he and Gabriele became good friends with Bernard Berenson, owner of Villa I Tatti, which later became Harvard University's international center for research and scholarship in art history. The villa is renowned for its library, for which many of the funds were donated by the Geiers.
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