LEONARDI, Domenico Felice (fl. c. 1743) and Marc Antonio DEL RÉ (1697-1766) - photo 1
LEONARDI, Domenico Felice (fl. c. 1743) and Marc Antonio DEL RÉ (1697-1766) - photo 2
LEONARDI, Domenico Felice (fl. c. 1743) and Marc Antonio DEL RÉ (1697-1766) - photo 3
LEONARDI, Domenico Felice (fl. c. 1743) and Marc Antonio DEL RÉ (1697-1766) - photo 4

LEONARDI, Domenico Felice (fl. c. 1743) and Marc Antonio DEL RÉ (1697-1766)

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Lot 232 | LEONARDI, Domenico Felice (fl. c. 1743) and Marc Antonio DEL RÉ (1697-1766)
LEONARDI, Domenico Felice (fl. c. 1743) and Marc Antonio DEL RÉ (1697-1766)

Le Delizie della Villa di Castellazzo Descritte in Verso. Milan: Giuseppe Richino Malatesta, 1743.

First edition of this finely illustrated description of the Villa Arconati in Castellazzo in Lombardy, a luxury hand-coloured copy. A lavish celebration and record of a grand rococo Italian garden newly designed after the French fashion. The villa was constructed in a Palladian style but with some Austrian influence. An elaborate garden in the Italian style had been laid out at Castellazzo in 1627 under Count Galeazzo Arconati. The gardens were later redesigned in the French style, and Giovanni Ruggeri also transformed the house. The new gardens were celebrated in the publication of the present work with engravings by Del Re, a prominent engraver and architect based in Milan. Del Re had compiled an illustrated description of the luxury villas in the outskirts of Milan, published as the Ville de Delizie in 1743, and it included the Villa Arconati. Inspired by this, Leonardi compiled this separate publication focusing on the Villa Arconati alone, giving it a fuller description and a greater number of illustrations. It depicts scenes both of the garden and of the new interiors, appropriately peopled with fashionable society; the lay-out of the garden is shown in one plate. The garden survives today virtually intact, including its rococo zoo (depicted in this work with three ostriches), making it 'the only one of its kind to have been preserved in Italy' (G. Masson, Italian Gardens, 1987, p.252). Bobins V, 1448; Cicognara 4030; Kat. Berlin 3496.



Folio (365 x 232mm). 24 double-page engraved plates coloured by a contemporary hand, with painted gold borders, mounted on guards (thumb marks to the margins of a few plates). Contemporary calf backed yellow marbled boards, spine with gilt ruled raised bands, tan morocco label lettered in gilt (scattered worm holes on spine, two bands a little worn, covers slightly rubbed).





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