L’ANNO M.DCCC.XLII. [1842]. Descritte da… Messina. Stamperia di G. Fiumara. 1843.

In fólio de 35x24 cm. Com 87 pags.

Encadernação da época inteira de veludo (cor bordeaux) com ferros a ouro nas pastas [pequenos florões nos cantos das pastas] e o super libris armoriado do Rei Dom Fernando II de Saxe-Coburgo-Gotta [monograma F. II com coroa real portuguesa].

Exemplar que pertenceu ao consorte da Rainha D. Maria II, tendo sido adquirido pela Casa de Saboia que mais tarde o vendeu. Apresenta os ex-libris da Biblioteca de D. Fernando II e de António Capucho.

Ilustrado com portada arquitectónica desenhada a tinta da china e aguarelada à mão provavelmente pelo proprio D. Fernando II e ainda 9 litrografias extra-texto que resumem as festividades civis e apresentam gravuras com construções efémeras destinadas ao lançamento da pirotecnia. Texto apresenta-se impresso dentro de uma esquadria de 2 filetes finos. Obra com um levantamento de obras de arte de estilo neo-gótico ao gosto da época.

 The city of Messina in Sicily, through their formal and informal associations, political and spiritual leadership, created a narrative of millennial and ideological elements in a framework of meanings and esoteric medieval heretics. The entrance of Count Roger was a favorite in the 19th Century, consisting of ephemeral fairs with devices and scenarios assembled in the streets and lit from behind, with results of spectacular effect, the most valuable of those scenarios was produced by the artist Michael Panebianco. It was reproduced on the volume of Dominic Ventimiglia The Secular Celebration of Our Lady in Messina in 1843 and printed as a souvenir of the jubilee of this annual festivity. The presence in Sicily of the Normans and the fight against the Moors resulted in a proliferation of myths and legends, customs and traditions of figurative themes ultimately cultural productions that for many centuries - and in some cases until the present day - marked the traditional culture of the Scilians contributing to the local Sicilian identity.