Astrophel and Other Poems.

London, Chatto & Windus 1914, cm.13x19,5, pp.IX,331, rilegatura coeva in mz.pelle verde con angoli ai piatti, piatti in tela, dorso a 5 nervi con titoli e filetti in oro. (dorso insolato, firma di appartenenza di famiglia nobiliare al I risguardo.)

A new edition. London, Chatto & Windus 1905, cm.13x19,5, pp.XVI,98,(2), rilegatura coeva in mezza pergamena con grandi angoli ai piatti, piatti in carta marmorizz., bei titoli ms. in rosso e nero ai dorsi.

London, Chatto & Windus 1896, 2 voll. di 2, cm.13x19,5, pp.(6),132,(4), rileg. coeve uniformi in mezza pergamena con grandi angoli ai piatti, piatti in carta marmorizz., bei titoli ms. in rosso e nero ai dorsi. First edition.

A cura di Nicola Bizzi. Prato, Aurora Boreale 2023, cm.14,8x21, pp.248, brossura. Collana Symbols & Myths. Testo in Inglese Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was a British poet, writer and playwright of the Victorian era. Active in the aesthetic circle, romantic and then decadent, he met Oscar Wilde and other famous intellectuals and artists of the same environment, attending the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and becoming a friend of the poet, artist and initiate Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Eccentric personality, with a strong taste for artistic provocation, inspired by writers such as the Marquis de Sade, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Charles Baudelaire, his poetry was very controversial, due to its themes (sadomasochism, suicide, lesbianism, irreligiosity); his lyrics are also characterized by original versification solutions, by the cult of paganism and the idealized Middle Ages, and of absolute freedom. From 1903 to 1909 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. With Alfred Edward Housman, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Ernest Dowson and William Butler Yeats, he is considered one of the most representative lyric poets of Victorian literature. He died in Putney (London) on April 10, 1909. Swinburne's literary output is vast and includes poems, plays, songs, novels, short stories and essays on literary criticism. Songs before Sunrise, first published in London in 1871 and dedicated to the Italian revolutionary and Freemason Giuseppe Mazzini, is one of Swinburne's finest collections of poetry. Based on his pagan and pantheistic ideals and on the revolutionary spirit of that time, it is a devoted and warm homage to Italy and the Mediterranean, with references to ancient mythology and the national independence of peoples.

Firenze, Romano Editore 2011, cm.13x18,5, pp.357, brossura, cop.fig.con bandelle. [copia allo stato di nuovo]. Coll.Insoliti Sospetti,9. "C'è un solo posto, a Istanbul, dove si possono veder volare i gabbiani anche di notte sopra i minareti della Moschea Blu. Un'altra notte scende sul Bosforo; si sono accese le luci sulle cupole delle moschee e il traffico si è placato. Mentre i canti dei muhezin si diffondono fra i minareti, lo skipper Corto avvia un'indagine insolita e pericolosa. Aiutato da un amico fidato, Fathim, e dalla sua caratteristica e simpatica ciurma, riuscirà a svelare il mistero che si cela dietro al labirinto delle cisterne sotterranee. Da Viareggio a Istanbul, passando per san Pietroburgo, una nuova avvincente avventura piena di colpi di scena". (dalla I bandella).