Calasso, Roberto — Tiepolo Pink

Knopf First American edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Knopf, 2009. 8vo., 288pp., illustrated with color and b/w plates. Translated by Alastair McEwen. As new in as new dust jacket. Few have even attempted to tackle Tiepolo's series of thirty-three bizarre and haunting etchings, the Capricci and the Scherzi, but Roberto Calasso rises to the challenge, interpreting them as chapters in a dark narrative that contains the secret of Tiepolo's art. Blooming ephebes, female Satyrs, Oriental sages, owls, snakes: we will find them all, as well as Punchinello and Death, within the pages of this book, along with Venus, Time, Moses, numerous angels, Cleopatra, and Beatrice of Burgundy-a motley company always on the go. As New As New 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 320