Carlo Farneti, Les Fleurs du Mal, Paris, 1935, Gibert Jeune, 2634/3000.
Illustr.: 16 full page illustrations (coloured by E, Carpentier).
Carlo Farneti was born in Naples on January 29, 1892; he was a student (1906-1911) at the Industrial Artistic Museum of Naples and distinguished himself especially in ceramics and illustration. In 1921 he received a diploma of merit for applied art at the first Neapolitan Biennale, where he exhibited ceramics and majolica. His work as an illustrator took place mainly in France, where he moved in 1926, upon his father's death, and where he found publishers who offered him the opportunity to illustrate numerous nineteenth-century literary works. In 1927 in Paris he published seventy etchings for the first volume of E. A. Poe's Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires (ed. S. Kra), and the following year an equal number of illustrations for the second. In 1929, still in Paris (ed. Javal and Bordeaux), he created thirty etchings for La terre by E. Zola and in 1935 he executed the illustrations for Les fleurs du mal by Ch. Baudelaire in the exhibition of Gilbert Jeune. ( http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/carlo-farneti )
