Prose, e poesie dell'abate Girolamo Tagliazucchi professore d'eloquenza nella regia Università di Torino, consacrate all'altezza reale di Vittorio Amedeo, Duca di Savoja &c Tagliazucchi, Girolamo Classical Literature,Poetry

8vo, pp. xxii, 469, [3], 46, [2], 75, [17]; wanting A1, woodcut vignette on title page, woodcut initials and ornaments; 10 in OCLC, Stanford, Princeton and Wisconsin only in the U.S. Bound with: Tagliazucchi, Girolamo, Due discorsi uno sopra l'acqua recitato dal signor Secondo Sinesio, e l'altro sopra il vino recitato dal signor Giampietro Tagliazucchi. In un'accademia fatta dai signori studenti d'eloquenza. Nella Regia Università di Torino l'anno 1735. In Torino: presso Gio. Francesco Mairesse, [1735], pp. 26, [2]; woodcut initials and ornaments; 6 in OCLC, all in Europe; bound with: Tagliazucchi, Girolamo, A Carlo Emmanuele re di Sardegna, di Cipro, di Gerusalemme, . orazione panegirica detta dall'abate Girolamo Tagliazucchi . nel faustissimo giorno della reale sua nascita, n Torino: per Gio. Francesco Mairesse, 1735, pp. 54; woodcut initials and ornaments; 6 in OCLC, all in Europe. Together three volumes in 1, contemporary calf neatly rebacked and retipped, old spine laid down on front pastedown; paper quality varies so parts of the text in the first volume a bit toned, but on the whole a good, sound copy and still reasonably clean. Tagliazucchi (1674-1751) began his career as a lawyer but gave that up to become a priest, but gave that up, too, and became professor of Greek at the University of Turin. His most significant works, published there, date to this period of his teaching in Turin: The Prolusion for the Opening of the Studies in 1733, a panegyric Oration to Carlo Emanuele III king of Sardinia (1735 and present here in this volume), the Collection of prose and poems for use in the royal schools (1735 - also present), a volume (Oration and poems) for the establishment of the Academy of drawing, painting, sculpture and military and civil architecture (1736), etc. His most illustrious pupil was Giuseppe Baretti.