FRENCH LITERATURE. A collection of sixteen autograph letters and manuscripts, mostly signed, 1664-c.1955, by writers including
FRENCH LITERATURE. A collection of sixteen autograph letters and manuscripts, mostly signed, 1664-c.1955, by writers including: Jean CHAPELAIN. Autograph letter signed to [Carlo Dati], Paris, 23 October 1664, in Italian, an expression of admiration, 'La sua virtu, la sua erudizione, e quel suo Toscanesimo pretto, elegante e numeroso mi hanno reso suo ammiratore un dalli primi componienti che m'e venuto fatto di veder di esso lei', two pages, 4to , bifolium; with autograph manuscripts by by André CHÉNIER (fragment of an article on inequality and oppression with a related letter), Armand CARREL (article for Le National on the loss of freedom during Thiers' ministry, with a related letter), Marcel MOULOUDJI (autograph manuscripts of Acts II and III of an untitled play and of a one act 'Divertissement' entitled 'Le Rendez-Vous Les Paravents ou les Marionettes', together approximately 56 pages, 4to ) and Rémy de GOURMONT ('Epilogues', [April 1896], comprising mocking commentaries on the Italian Abyssinian expedition, 'la tragi-comique bousculade', and other topical subjects); and letters by Henri Cazalis, Roger Peyrefitte (to Henri de Montherlant 'mon cher oncle', irreverently referring to himself as Montherlant's nephew, replete with double-entendres , and referring teasingly to Montherlant's [concealed] homosexuality, 1939); Francois PONGE (2 letters to André Rousseaux), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (2), and Françoise Sagan Jean Chapelain, one of the founders of the Académie Royale, was tutor to Madame de Sévigné. Carlo Dati (1619-1676), Florentine scientist and writer, studied with Galileo and was known to Milton. Invited to the courts of Louis XIV and Queen Christina, he delivered a famous oration on Cassiano, which in the present letter Chapelain is awaiting: 'Aspetteremo fra tanto con desiderio impatiente quel suo Panegyrico sopra le virtu del fu Cavalier Cassiano del Pozzo e la seconda Parte del'Orazioni de chiari Letterati vostrali'. (16)
FRENCH LITERATURE. A collection of sixteen autograph letters and manuscripts, mostly signed, 1664-c.1955, by writers including
FRENCH LITERATURE. A collection of sixteen autograph letters and manuscripts, mostly signed, 1664-c.1955, by writers including: Jean CHAPELAIN. Autograph letter signed to [Carlo Dati], Paris, 23 October 1664, in Italian, an expression of admiration, 'La sua virtu, la sua erudizione, e quel suo Toscanesimo pretto, elegante e numeroso mi hanno reso suo ammiratore un dalli primi componienti che m'e venuto fatto di veder di esso lei', two pages, 4to , bifolium; with autograph manuscripts by by André CHÉNIER (fragment of an article on inequality and oppression with a related letter), Armand CARREL (article for Le National on the loss of freedom during Thiers' ministry, with a related letter), Marcel MOULOUDJI (autograph manuscripts of Acts II and III of an untitled play and of a one act 'Divertissement' entitled 'Le Rendez-Vous Les Paravents ou les Marionettes', together approximately 56 pages, 4to ) and Rémy de GOURMONT ('Epilogues', [April 1896], comprising mocking commentaries on the Italian Abyssinian expedition, 'la tragi-comique bousculade', and other topical subjects); and letters by Henri Cazalis, Roger Peyrefitte (to Henri de Montherlant 'mon cher oncle', irreverently referring to himself as Montherlant's nephew, replete with double-entendres , and referring teasingly to Montherlant's [concealed] homosexuality, 1939); Francois PONGE (2 letters to André Rousseaux), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (2), and Françoise Sagan Jean Chapelain, one of the founders of the Académie Royale, was tutor to Madame de Sévigné. Carlo Dati (1619-1676), Florentine scientist and writer, studied with Galileo and was known to Milton. Invited to the courts of Louis XIV and Queen Christina, he delivered a famous oration on Cassiano, which in the present letter Chapelain is awaiting: 'Aspetteremo fra tanto con desiderio impatiente quel suo Panegyrico sopra le virtu del fu Cavalier Cassiano del Pozzo e la seconda Parte del'Orazioni de chiari Letterati vostrali'. (16)
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