Carteromaco, Niccolò [ Forteguerri, Niccolò ] — Del Ricciardetto

A Spesedi Francesco Pitteri Librario Veneziano, Parigi [ 1765 ] reprint. Calf, P+. 432pp, upper board detached, leather dry & rubbed, spine decoration worn. Armorial bookplate of Charles Grave Hudson to the pastedown. [ publisher & date taken from the pagination as the second volume has no title page ]. Second volume only of the Ricciardetto which was published using the pseudonym of Niccolò Carteromaco, in Venice in 1738. it is a burlesque poem in 30 cantos, inspired by the poems of chivalry. By 1739 it was on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, thus ensuring its popularity. Niccolò Forteguerri [ 1674 - 1735 ] Italian poet & catholic priest. Sir Charles Grave Hudson, 1st Baronet [ 1730 - 1813 ] married well and became the owner of Wanlip Hall in Leicestershire. He was a director of the South Sea Company and became a High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1783.