PASOLINI (Benvenuto). Catalogo dei Libri Posseduti dal Conte Benvenuto Pasolini, Faentino.1857

Tipi de Pietro Conti all' Apollo, Faenza. 172pp., pp. 2-171 in double-column, orig. blue paper wrappers, uncut, 1906 numbered items. The privately printed catalogue of the private library of the one-time 'sindaco' (i.e. syndic or mayor) of Faenza who died in 1871, and with whom the Faenza branch of Pasolini dall' Onda family became extinct, according to Crollalanza. The library consisted mainly of Italian books from the 16th to the 19th centuries (nos. 1-1,507), books in Latin from the fifteenth century onwards (nos. 1,508-1,846) and a Italian manuscript on paper, dated 1345, of the Life of St. Badessa, Abbess of Santa Maria Novella of Faenza, by Don Sylvestro Ardenti of Florence. Ottino & Fumagalli attribute the well-compiled catalogue to Angelo Ubaldini. From the library of Bernard Breslauer, New York.