Filli Di Sciro. (Bonarelli, Conte Guidobaldo). Literature

16mo. 178pp. + 11pp. 4 x 2 inches. Dec. initial letters and devices, plates, engraved title page, 6 plates. Italian text. Some light staining and browning, contemporary sheep very sl. loss to corners, head and tail of spine amateurishly repaired with leather, dec. dec. gilt spine with loss to compartments. Inscribed ‘a ujo di Felice Caron Barnabita Genova’ with a signature Luigi ? partially inked out below.Felice Caronni (1747–1815) was an Italian memoir writer, numismatic and archeologist. Born into a family of wealthy merchants, after completing his studies in the Milan Seminary Felice Caronni entered the Barnabite Order, teaching literature in various colleges in Italy. He fell victim to the Barbary slave trade after having been abducted by the barbary corsairs in 1804 and sold in Tunis, where he spent several years as a slave. After having returned to Italy, he wrote a memoir of his experience as a slave, which is one of the latest slave narratives of the barbary slave trade. US$103