Note 163 — Chapter IV · The Bibliography of Bibliographies Begins Anew

See p. 712. This pamphlet (ICN) is an anonymous catalogue of the library of Tommaso Giuseppe Farsetti. G. A. E. Bogeng calls it a model piece of work; see Jahrbuch für Bücherkunde und Liebhaberei, II (1910), 44. In his treatise Die grossen Bibliophilen. Geschichte der Büchersammler und ihre Sammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), III, 30, Bogeng names Giacomo or Jacopo Morelli (1745-1819) as the author. Gustave Brunet, who has seen the Catalogo, says: "Ce petit volume de 207 pages offre l'inventaire raisonnée d'une collection fort importante de rarétés dramatiques appartenant au bailli Farsetti. De notes nombreuses et parfois d'une certain étendue lui donnent du prix" (Dictionnaire de bibliographie catholique [Paris, 1860], col. 631). Curiously enough, Frati's account of Italian book-collectors, bibliographers, and librarians does not include Farsetti and makes no mention of this and other catalogues of the Farsetti library in the article on Jacopo Morelli; see Dizionario biobibliografico dei bibliotecari e bibliofili italiani dal sec. XIV al XIX (Florence, 1933), pp. 379-384.