ROSINI, Giovanni. 11219

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Autograph Letter Signed, to a correspondent in Florence, mentioning Pietro da Cortona. In Italian, untranslated. 1 page 8 x 6 inches, address panel. Pisa, 11 September 1844. Giovanni Rosini (1776-1855), historical novelist, poet, dramatist, and art historian, who was professor of rhetoric at Pisa for most of his career, and the author of a History of Painting in Italy. His novels include La monaca di Monza (1829), Luisa Strozzi (1832-3), and Il Conte Ugolino della Gherardesca e i Ghibellini di Pisa (1843).