Flashmob: George Danton

In honor of Bastille Day, I'm announcing a flashmob for a relevant Legacy Library:

George Danton.

It's a small catalog—one or two of us could handle in a day.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Danton
User: http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgesDanton ( GeorgesDanton )
Password: his middle name (in lower case) and the year of his death
LL Profile: https://www.librarything.com/legacylibraries/profile/765

We (perhaps only I?) will be cataloging from Hillaire Belloc's catalog of his library https://books.google.com/books?id=5NQsAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA380#v=onepage&q&... . Presumably his source is out there, but he has some suggestions for editions and its easy and in English.

If interested, just claim some section and start cataloging.

Still cataloging? I just saw this.

Yeah, I haven't actually started. I'll do some this weekend. Take any part you like.

I've started on the Italian titles.

Interesting to find that Danton had so much Italian Renaissance literature in his library, but no Latin. It suggests that he could read the language well, although there is nothing in his capsule biography to suggest any ties to or residence in Italy.

Finished the Italian titles. Besides the sparseness of Belloc's list, there are some misspellings and other errors. I hope someone with more expertise in Italian Renaissance literature or 18th-century composers will review this and suggest improvements.
I'll quote and comment on Belloc's more puzzling entries.

Guischardini: History of Italy, 4 vols.

"Guischardini" appears to be an error for Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540). There is a very obscure Guischardini who apparently wrote something about ancient Belgium. In Latin. But the 4-vol. history of Italy (Storia d'Italia) that Danton could have owned has to be by Guicciardini.

Boiardi's edition of the "Orlando Furioso", 4 vols.

This is not Orlando furioso but Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando innamorato — the work for which Ariosto's Orlando furioso was meant as a sequel. The popularity of the latter poem was far greater than of the earlier work, so Belloc can be forgiven for not knowing about it (and he didn't have Google and Wikipedia to enlighten him). Danton's 18th-century edition (there were many) would have had "ORLANDO" at the head of the title page followed by several lines of smaller text. Belloc must have assumed this was an edition of Orlando furioso and that the name on the title page was that of an editor or publisher. Either he or the typesetter changed the last letter of Boiardo's name to "i," maybe assuming that Italian surnames almost always end that way. Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) is almost always called simply Ariosto, and until doing this library I assumed that that was an obscure given name, like Dante and Michelangelo.

Métastase (?), 8 vols.

"Métastase" is a French cognomen for Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782).

Dalina (?), 7 vols.

"Dalina" had me stumped. I can't find a record of any such person or work, including "D'Alina" or other variants. But a Worldcat search turned up an intermezzo by Ignazio Fiorillo (1715-1787) called Dalina, although it is not included in this list of Fiorillo's stage music. Dalina is published in this ca. 1760 book along with two other intermezzi (Con la burla da dovero and Balbo). There don't seem to be any extant editions of Dalina alone. I don't see how a single intermezzo could occupy seven volumes, so I assume this was a set of seven small volumes that each contained a single libretto. Possibly not all the libretti were for works by Fiorillo. I titled the LT entry Dalina.

Reichardet (?), 3 vols.

"Reichardet" is an error, probably for "Reichardt". My guess is that Danton owned three volumes of libretti or music by Johann Friedrich Reichardt, a German composer who composed many Italian works in the 1770s-80s. According to his Wikipedia bio, Reichardt visited Paris and then published (in German) his support for the French Revolution. It's possible that Danton met him or knew of his visit. Reichardt was also an essayist, but in German rather than Italian. I created an entry titled "(Missing Title)" and attributed it to Reichardt.

"Letters on Painting and Sculpture", 5 vols.

This is the Raccolta di lettere sulla pittura, scultura ed architettura compiled by Giovanni Gaetano Bottari (1689-1775), whose name does not appear on the title page of any of the series' seven volumes.