Features of book:
pp.612, size 32x44, 174 colour plates, three dossiers with double page plates,107illustrations w/b in the book, printed on Pordenone paper purposely made by Cordenons paper-mill, bound with the back in leather and gold decorations, kept in an elegant box, circulation of 3499 books numbered progressively by hand.

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The Crib: religious suggestion and popular tradition

Development of Neapolitan crib from its origin to the latter half of the nineteenth century. A story through 
three centuries

Ethnic tradition and Neapolitan musical school in the 
seventeenth and eighteenth -century Christmas celebrations in Naples.

The fiction of Arcadia. Neapolitan crib and foreign 
observers in the eighteenth century.

Ferdinandea Royal Factory.
Angelo Carola Perrotti Popular china models and sculptors of crib figures.

Rebuilding in miniature of a hanging world between 
Stefano De Matteis wasteful celebrations and ritual memories. 

The Crib from religious customers to collections.

Eighteenth-century Neapolitan shepherds in the 
museums of the world. 

New documents on San Martino 
and his students 
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