F. Sternberg, Autograph on his book: “Grimmelshausen ed il suo tempo” 1915, ex-libris, in Italian

Estratto dal fascicolo di Gennaio 1915 della Rivista d'Italia

Autograph of the author on endpaper, 1927

F. Sternberg, Grimmelshausen and his time. 

Extract from the January 1915 issue of the Rivista d'Italia. Rome, 48 pp., soft cover, 24 x 16 cm.

Woodcut exlibris of Jacchia Giusto Pietro, 8 x 6 cm.

Laid in wrapper, light brown paper, some stains to first and last pages

Giusto Pietro Jacchia (1884-1937) known as Piero, by Eugenio and Clementina Fano; born on 8 April 1884 in Trieste. Degree in foreign languages. High school professor. At the beginning of the twentieth century he was forced to leave Trieste because he was an irredentist. He moved to Bologna, as a guest of his uncle Eugenio Jacchia, and from 1909 he worked for a few years in the editorial office of the "Giornale del Mattino". In 1915 he volunteered to go to war.
After 1918 he returned to live in Trieste and in 1919 he was one of the founders of the combat beam. He took part in the "march on Rome", but left the PNF when the persecutions against Freemasonry, of which he was a member, began. In 1927 he was dismissed from school, for not having taken an oath of allegiance to the regime. In 1931 he left Italy, with his wife, and went to Holland and Great Britain and here he carried out an intense anti-fascist political activity. In 1936, with the name of Fulvio Panteo, he went to Spain and enlisted in the Rosselli Column to fight in defense of republican Spain against Franco's sedition. On 5 November 1936 he was wounded in Aragon. Discharged from the hospital, he was sent to the Madrid front and was killed there in combat on January 28, 1937. The same year the fascist police issued an arrest order against him if he were to be repatriated. In the spring of 1944 - on the proposal of his cousin Mario Jacchia, regional commander of the GL brigades - his name was given to the 3rd GL mountain brigade, which operated between the Sillaro and Santerno valleys. Later the formation took the name of the 66th Jacchia Garibaldi brigade.

Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1621/22 – 17 August 1676)[2] was a German author. He is best known for his 1669 picaresque novel Simplicius Simplicissimus (German: Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus) and the accompanying Simplician Scriptures series.