Resumen de "Lo Sposalizio di Marfisa". Una raccolta di caricature di Giuseppe Piattoli
The article presents a curious and little-known collection of prints -entitled "The Betrothal of Marfisa" and representing the key moments prior to a fashionable wedding- made in Florence in the 1790s by Giuseppe Piattoli and Carlo Lasinio. Apart from defining the role of the two artists, the autor identified some of the iconographical and literary sources that probably inspired the ten plates in this series, which are here connected with preparatory drawings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and an unpublished small oil painting of "The Marriage Contract" (Rome, Museo di Roma), the only known painted versión of this subject.
