Francesco Carlo D’Amico Duca d’Ossada (1740-1825

Osservazioni pratiche intorno la pesca, corso e ...

Francesco Carlo D’Amico Duca d’Ossada (1740-1825

Osservazioni pratiche intorno la pesca, corso e cammino de’ tonni In opposizione a quanto scrisse su tal soggetto l’avvocato Dr. Don Francesco Paola Avolio Siracusano ... In Messina, Presso la Società Tipografica, 1816.


§ 8vo (200 x 140), [14], IX, [3], 164 pp., signature A-M1-8; engraved frontispiece of Ferdinand IV, large folding engraved plate. Contemporary wrappers. Free leaf and first two leaves stain on right low corner, not affecting the text. Fine copy, crisp and wide-margined.

First edition of this work on tuna fisheries in Sicily; the author, Francesco Carlo d'Amico was count of Guido and duke of Calvello (previously Ossada), owned the tuna fisheries of San Giorgio. Written in response to a work published by Avolio, D ’Amico opposes and corrects many of Avolio's statements. Divided in three parts, the present works describes first about the tuna fish and explains different legal and fiscal aspects of the industry; the second part is about the distances among fisheries and the legal restictions on fishing on this basis; the third one is detailed description of the tuna fisheries in Sicily, their history, ownership, seasonal activity, harvest and so on.
Ref: Massimo Tricamo and Giovanni Lo Presti I duchi d'Ossada e le Tonnare in: https://duchidossada.blogspot.com/; Giampiero Fumi Fonti per la storia dell'agricoltura italiana (1800-1849): saggio bibliografico Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2003, n. 957; Vincenzo Consolo Reading & Writing the Mediterranean : Essays, University of Toronto Press, 2007, pag. 166-167.