1927 Storia dell’ Arte Etrusca - Pericle Ducati, Complete Set + First Edition

Description: Pericle Ducati. Storia dell’ Arte Etrusca. Rinascimento del Libri Firenze, 1927. 590 p, 284 plates + xvii (Index). Complete Set, First Editions. Uniform orange cloth binding measuring 11.25 x 8.5”, large 8vos. In fair condition. Cloth boards scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Heads and tails of spines bumped. Front gutter of Vol. I split, binding mesh exposed. Ex-library gilt lettering on tails of spines overall bright and clean, remainder of gilt lettering moderate soiled & difficult to read. Top edges sprayed black (dulled). Vol. I’s hinges beginning to split at head and tail with some chipped cloth. Ex-library bookplate found on front paste-downs: “Free Library of Philadelphia. Gift of the Italians of Philadelphia.” Hole-punched blind ex-library stamps found on both title pages + contents pages in rear of text-blocks. Edges of text-blocks lightly soiled/scuffed. Text-blocks lightly toned, mostly at edges of leaves. Ex-library barcodes found on top edges of rear end-pages. Black ink stamps found on bottom edges of rear paste-downs: “Printed in Italy.” Bindings intact. Please see photos. Pericule Ducati (1880 - 1944) grew up in a bourgeois family originally from Trento. He attended the University of Bologna studying Greek and Latin literature under Giosuè Carducci (1835-1907) and archaeology under Edoardo Brizio. According to the Italian XIX century academic model, he studied classical archaeology at various universities including, in particular, Rome where he studied under the Italian art historian Luigi Pigorini and ancient Roman topography under Rodolfo Lanciani. His 1903 dissertation on classical sculpture involved one of the concepts that would occupy him his entire life: the transmission of antique iconography in other cultures. In 1906-1907 he visited southwestern Greece in order to observe archaeological classical tradition and to study history of Greek pottery under the Austrian researcher Emanuel Löwy (1857 -1938). After a brief appointment as Ispettore ai Musei e Scavi (1909), he was named to the chair in classical archaeology in Catania in 1912. He moved to a professorship in Turin and finally to Bologna in 1920. There he combined his teaching position with that of director of the Museo Civico. Ducati collaborated with the fascist government of Benito Mussolini, less, some say, out of a political interest than for the need to remain researching in his field. Complete Set. First Editions. FORN-SHELF-0674-BB-2408-HK2035

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