Friendship diary, liber amicarum, which belonged to Laura Breschi, nephew of Anton Giulio Barrili, containing several autographed dedications, original drawings, musical lines by well-known artists from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.The diary has a hard cover covered in fuchsia floral fabric, with the metallic initials LB applied at the top left, in mediocre condition, with total detachment of the spine. The internal pages are in excellent condition. Measures 20x26 cmIn order we find: a whole page with an autographed poetic composition by Anton Giulio Barrili dedicated to his nieces Laura and Maura; two photographic postcards with dedication and signature by Miecio (Mieczyslaw) Horszowski (pianist 1892-1993); a portrait of the young Laura in ink dedicated and signed Luigi Gallina '99 (painter 1865-1931); an autographed poetic composition and a postcard with dedication and autograph by Paul Déroulede (writer 1846-1914); a photographic postcard with dedication and signature by Cesare Pascarella (Roman painter, poet 1858-1940) and an original ink drawing of a donkey TO MY PATIENT BROTHER! also signed by Cesare Pascarella; a dedication with an autograph signature by Leopoldo Fregoli (the quick-change artist, 1867-1936); a musical line with dedication and autograph signature by Ruggero Leoncavallo (composer 1857-1919); a postcard with a musical line dedicated and autographed by Umberto Giordano (composer 1867-1948); 4-page letter/story with autograph dedication by Luigi Morandi, writer, poet and Garibaldian with Barrili (1844-1922); a poem with an autograph signature by Rosmunda Tomei Finamore (1864-1955); photographic postcard with dedication and signature of Smara (Smarande) Gheorghiu, Romanian poet and feminist movement activist (1857-1944); a sepia ink caricature of P.G.Breschi signed by GANDOLIN (Luigi Arnaldo Vassallo designer and director of Secolo XIX in Genoa); and then a small brochure signed by Amilcare Zanella, and 8 other various autographs (Ferdinando Martini, and others)

30 x 30 x 20 cm

3 kg