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MAPEI, Camillo. Italy, Classical, Historical, and Picturesque. Illustrated in a Series of Views From Drawings by Stanfield, Roberts, Harding...With Descriptions of the Scenes. Preceded by an Introductory Essay, on the Recent History and Present Condition of Italy and the Italians by... London: Blackie and Son, nd. (1847). With the bookplate of P.M. (Peregrine Maitland) Grover [1818-1885] a Canadian farmer, businessman, and politician. Folio, contemporary green half morocco, marble boards, raised bands, cviii, 160pp. With an engraved titlepage, and 60 plates including a frontispiece. Inner hinges professionally reinforced with cloth tape, some foxing throughout including the plates, wear to the edges of the boards, a very good copy.
Views of Italian scenery taken from the works of English illustrators, and introduced by an essay by Camillo Mapei. Cities depicted include: Vicenza, Nice, Genoa, Carrara, Pisa, Florence, Siena, Perugia, Rome, Castel Gandolfo, Naples, Amalfi, Assisi, Bologna, Ferrara, Padua, Venice, Como, Milan, and others. Mapei [1809-1853], Italian presbyter and theologian, became an eminent figure of Italian Protestantism in the Risorgimento period. Patriot and political exile, he met Gabriele Rossetti and Giuseppe Mazzini in England, where he taught in schools for Italians. In 1847 he published the most important of his writings "An essay on the political, religious and moral state of Italy", destined to arouse considerable interest among the Anglo-Saxon public. So Diz. Biograf. Italians, LXIX, p. 357-58. P.M. Grover [1818-1885] was a Canadian farmer, businessman, and politician. Descended from United Empire Loyalists, Grover was born in Grafton and educated at Upper Canada College. He operated a general store and lumberyard in Peterborough where he served as a the warden of Peterborough County. He moved to Norwood in 1852 and served as a director of the Canada West Farmers Mutual and Stock Insurance Company. A Conservative, he represented Peterborough East in the House of Commons from 1867 to 1874.