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CISPADANE REPUBLIC (1796-1797). Piano di costituzione per la Repubblica Cispadana. Modena, 1797. 8vo. 87, [1] pp. Engraved vignette with the symbol of the Republic in an oval on the title page. One of several editions published in the same year in Reggio Emilia, Modena, Bologna, Faenza, and Imola, of the first constitution of the Cispadane Republic, promulgated by G. Bertolani, C. Masi, L. Ramondini, C. Sacchetti, and P. Baranzoni. The constitution is divided into 404 articles, in which the principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity, as established by the French Revolution, are enshrined. The newly formed Republic's rules are established in administrative, judicial, civil, educational, military and other fields. Italian union catalgue, IT\ICCU\IEIE\001450.
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CISALPINE REPUBLIC (1797-1802). Costituzione della Repubblica Cisalpina anno V. della Repubblica Francese (MDCCXCVII). Milano, nella stamperia di Giuseppe Galeazzi, [1797]. 8vo. [8], 59, [5] pp. On the title page engraved Republican symbol with the inscription “Direttorio Esecutivo”. First edition (issue A) of the second constitution of the Italian republics (after that for the Cispadan Republic) established after Napoleon's first victories. It was not drafted by an assembly, but imposed by Bonaparte himself, who promulgated it on July 8, 1797, and assumed for the first time responsibility for appointing the Directory and the legislative body. Cremona-De Longis-Rossi, Una nazione da rigenerare, no. 1230; Italian Union Catalogue, IT\ICCU\IEIE\001445.
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FRENCH REPUBLIC. Costituzione della Repubblica Francese. Bologna, per le stampe di Jacopo Marsigli ai Celestini, anno IX. Repub. [1800-1801]. 8vo. 30, [2 blank] pp. Italian Union Catalogue, IT\ICCU\UBOE\123690.
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SENATE OF BOLOGNA. Piano di constituzione presentato al Senato di Bologna dalla Giunta constituzionale a cui si premette l'Editto publicato dal medesimo Senato per esplorar su di esso il voto del popolo. Bologna, nella Stamperia camerale, 1796. 8vo. XVI, 64 pp. Woodcut emblem of the city of Bologna on the title page. First Italian democratic constitution, which never came into force because it was immediately superseded in 1797 by the Constitution of the Cispadane Republic. Italian Union Catalogue, IT\ICCU\IEIE\001350; Cremona-Longis-Rossi, no. 169; A. Varni, Presentazione, in: “Piano di Constituzione presentato al Senato di Bologna dalla Giunta costituzionale”, San Giovanni in Persiceto, 1996).