1785 DANTE 1ed Divine Comedy Inferno French & Italian Rivarol Commentary Enfer

1785 DANTE 1^ed Divine Comedy Inferno French & Italian Rivarol Commentary Enfer

Few works throughout the history of all written history have had such an impact on the readership of humanity. The Divine Comedy is Dante’s record of an allegorical journey through the spiritual realms of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. This medieval classic depicts Classical themes, Christian history, and Medieval politics. It has been the inspiration for countless plays, art, books, pieces of music, movies, and more!

This 1785 Italian and French edition of Dante’s ‘Inferno’ was collected and edited by French author Antoine de Rivarol who featured both languages in parallel pages along with French notes and commentary.

Item number: #24058

Price: $750

ALIGHIERI, Dante

L‘Enfer poeme du Dante traduction nouvelle

Londres, a Paris: chez Didot, Mergot, Bailly, 1785. 1^st edition thus

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • xlvii, [1], 503, [1]
• Provenance: Handwritten – de Bellegarde
  • Possibly Robert-Eugène-François Noyel de Bellegarde (d. 1790), Marquis des Marches and a general in the army of the Dutch Estates. He was the father of Adélaïde Victoire Noyel, Comtesse de Bellegarde, known as Adèle de Bellegarde (1772–1830), a Savoyard aristocrat who, during the French Revolution, became a popular salon hostess in Paris. De Bellegarde and her sister Aurore were known as Les Dames de Bellegarde. The art historian Ewa Lajer-Burcharth has written that the sisters were “known to epitomise the whole world of fashionable femininity.”
• Language: French / Italian
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~7.75in X 5in (20cm x 13cm)

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