Though innocuous looking, this pamphlet is the first edition, first printing of odes and sonnets by Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827), one of the principal shapers of Italian Neoclassical Romanticism. It contains some of his most famous early pieces, such as "Alla sera" (To Evening). Still covered in its original marbled paper, it is printed on unusual green paper which was dyed with a copper-based solution. What makes this pamphlet even rarer is that the first printing consisted of only 260 copies. Ugo Foscolo spent much of his life in political exile, and died destitute in England at the age of 49.