Lot 08220

[BARZONI Vittorio – author], [Wichmann August – translation], “Die Römer in Griechenland, Übersetzung aus dem Italienischen”, Triest, bei Wage, Fleis und Comp., 1798. German translation of the anti-Napoleonic work “I Romani nella Grecia” of Vittorio Barzoni, against the French occupation of Northern Italy. “I Romani nella Grecia”, was a veiled criticism of the French occupation as equivalent to the past Ancient Roman occupation and suppression of Greek freedoms, with Barzoni likening the ancient Greeks with the Italians and the ancient Romans with the Napoleonic French. An English translation of the work also appeared. RARE.