8vo; 210x160 mm.; [2] leaves, decorative woodcut and woodcut initial. Disbound, as issued, but with traces of having been in a binding for some time. Fine copy.
Description of the funeral ceremony held in Rome on the occasion of the death of King Louis XV, which took place in Versailles on 10 May 1774. The function was celebrated on 28 July in the church of S. Luigi dei Francesi. The decorations of the church, entrusted to the architect and painter Giuseppe Barberi, are exhaustively described. Busiri Vici: “One of his projects [Barberi’s] for the solemn funeral which was celebrated on 28 July 1774 in S. Luigi dei Francesi for the death of Louis XV was chosen by competition and executed. The ornaments and decorations he designed on that occasion were so successful that from then on he enjoyed the high protection of Cardinal Francesco de Bernis, ambassador of France.”
Andrea Busiri Vici, Barberi, Giuseppe (Tisifonte) In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani.