The history of music told through the work of one of the greatest artists of the eighteenth century.
This volume is the first published collection of drawings and caricatures of personalities active on the musical and cultural scene in Rome during the first half of the eighteenth century, form the world’s most important private and public collections: precious documents of musical life and its leading figures (composers, singers, instrumentalists and patrons) in the golden age of Cardinal Ottoboni, collected in a volume of great editorial quality.
The volume contains three hundred and eighty drawings and engravings of musical interest, selected from the collections of the Apostolic Library of the Vatican, the British Museum, The Puskin State Museum of Fine Arts of Moscow and other sources.
The body of works allows us to focus on the personality of Ghezzi the music lover within the broader spectrum of his many-sided artistic and historical interests, it is beyond doubt the most important figurative documentation of eighteenth century Europe.

The volume is available at the Skira bookstore on Via Torino in Milan and from October 22 at all Italian bookstores.