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should be helpful for students writing reports on Agnesi.  The more readily available sources are listed in the lower brown box. 


Some Important but Very Rare References
Elogio storico, di D. a Maria Gaetana Agnesi
written by Antonio Francesco Frisi

Published by "Milanese, dell' Accademiadell' Instituto delle scienze, elettrice onoraria di mathematiche nella Universitâ di Bologna.
PressoGuiseppi Galeazzie
Milan, Italy     [1799]
 
 
The College of William and Mary Rare Book Collection and the Bodleian Library of Oxford University are known to have copies of this important biographical memoir.  Frisi also included a seven page review of her Instituzioniprinted in 1749 by "l Aacadémie Royale des Sciences, Paris." 
 
     Colson was the first to use the name Witch.
Analytical institutions
by  Maria Gaetana Agnesi

translated by J. Colson  (1680 - 1760), Leucasian Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge University
Taylor and Wilks
London, England     [1801]
The Bodleian Library Pre-1920 Catalogue lists the title as
Analytical institutions, translated by J. Colson, now first printed under the inspection of J. Hellins.
Clark
Read the "f" as an "s".
Traités élémentaires de calcul différentiel et de calcul intégral, tr. de l'ital.,avec des additions.
        by  Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Chez Claude-Antoine Jombert, Fils ainé, Libraire, rue Dauphine, prés le Pont-Neuf.
Paris,     [1775]
This French edition has only 500 pages and is a translation of only the second volume.  Agnesi's original publication has 1,020 pages of text, 49 pages of illustrations, and one page of "Errori" with "Correzioni."
The Witch is in the first volume.
The Ambrosian Library of Milan has a large collection of manuscripts from the Agnesi family.
With the exception of #1 and #2, the  sources below should be in most university libraries. A. J. Frisi  would become  MGA's biographer some fifty-one years after being the schoolmate of  her younger brother, Giuseppe.  Frisi was very familiar with the family and life in the Agnesi household.

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