8vo. 210 x 140 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. 32 leaves. Publisher's tan boards, blue cloth spine; mylar wrapper. Very good copy.

First edition, printed in an edition 250 copies, this numbered "7", signed "ferlinghetti" in ink. Poems inspired by Ferlinghetti's air plane flight from Kennedy Airport to to Italy and France in the last 1970's. It is organized in three sections, Canti Romani, Canti Toscani, and Paris Transformations.

Dante learning the lingua
at his mother's knee
sees the swallows flying over
A Roman summer plover
flies in from seaward
It is morning on the balcon
over the city
The sun hits the side

of the ochre building

.

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Bookseller: De Simone Company, Booksellers (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1033
Title: A Trip to Italy & France
Author: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: A New Directions Book
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1981

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De Simone Company is presently offering rare books, manuscripts, illustrated books, broadsides, and ephemera documenting American history during the 19th century. We encourage you to visit our website where you will find numerous catalogues listing our offering. Visit www.desimonecompanybooksellers.com.De Simone Company also specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The Company has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy and is always interested in purchasing book on the subject.In January of 2017, Daniel De Simone retired from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C as the Eric Weinmann Librarian, where he directed the operations of the Central Library. De Simone came to the Folger from the Library of Congress after serving as the Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division for 14 years.Before his appointment as Rosenwald Curator in 2000, he operated his own New York based bookselling business for 22 years. Since retirement he has begun bookselling once again and is again a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He is also a member of the Grolier Club, NY, the Association Internationale de Bibliophile, Paris, and the Print Council of America.

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