Les Georgiques de Virgile Traduction Nouvelle en Vers Francois, Enrichies de Notes & de Figures

M. Delille

Verlag: C. Bleuet, 1770

Beschreibung

Jacques Delille, Virgil, Les Georgiques de Virgile Traduction Nouvelle en Vers Francois, Enrichies de Notes & de Figures; Troisieme Edition, A Paris, Chez C. Bleuet, Librarie, sur le Point-Saint Michel, 1770, avec approbation et privilege du roi. Full Leather, illustrated frontispiece, illustrations/plates throughout, 348 pages. 8vo. In good condition, loose hinges, moderate foxing throughout. Beautiful gilt textblock. Lovely marbling is still bright and colorful. See photos. Jacque Delille was a French poet, Freemason and translator. He gradually acquired a reputation as a poet by his epistles, in which things are not called by their ordinary names, but are hinted at by elaborate paraphrases. Sugar becomes le miel americain for example. This particular publication made him famous. Voltaire recommended the poet for the next vacant place in the Academie Francaise. Delille had become a professor of Latin poetry at College de France when the outbreak of the French Revolution had reduced him to poverty. He purchased his personal safety by professing his adherence to revolutionary doctrine, but eventually quit Paris. In the novel Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, the character Thenardier is said to look a lot like those portraits of the abbe Delille COLC1770AEFA. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers COLC1770AEFA

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Titel: Les Georgiques de Virgile Traduction ...

Verlag: C. Bleuet

Erscheinungsdatum: 1770

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

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