I pregi delle belle arti : celebrati in Campidoglio pel solenne concorso tenuto dall'insigne accademia del disegno in San Luca li 25. maggio 1789. essendone principe il signor Agostino Penna
An 1789 Roman Italian printed oration on the arts, delivered by Alessio Giardoni at the Campidoglio for the Accademia di San Luca's prize competition, published in Rome from Casaletti's press. Its single plate is an engraved allegory after Francesco Preziado: winged female figures float above a kneeling man and a helmeted woman who holds a wreath beside a classical temple and a sketched scroll. A designer might take its formal, classical composition of drapery, clouds and figures arranged in a symmetrical pyramid for editorial or academic allegory.
