A Napoleone in Vienna. Ode[To Napoleon in Vienna. Ode]
A very rare Brescia imprint, dedicated to Prince Eugène and celebrating Napoleon’s successes in the German campaign of 1805.
No copy recorded in the CCF.
A dampstain to the upper right corner of the leaves.
Contemporary cream paper-covered boards, smooth spine without lettering with tears, boards soiled, title within a black frame on the upper board and address likewise on the lower board, tears with losses on the lower board, contemporary binding.
However, dated 26 November of that year, it could not yet include the victory of Austerlitz. Niccolo Bettoni (1770-1842) was a prominent figure of Italian typography at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and was nicknamed the "Italian Didot" by his Parisian admirers: having developed a passion for the art following a meeting with Bodoni, he first acquired the Tipografia dipartimentale di Mella (in Brescia, which became the finest printing house in Lombardy), before opening four further workshops in Padua (1808-1819), in Alvisopoli (1810-1813) and finally in Milan and Portogruaro (1819-1832).
In 1835 he secretly departed for Paris, where he died, somewhat forgotten and pursued by his creditors.