Autograph letter signed from Marquis Alessandro Gregorio Capponi to Voltaire, dated 15 September 1745 [inédit]

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CMV33297

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Capon.283.pt.2, f.169, ‘Riposta del marchesse Alessandro Gregorio Capponi a François Marie Arouet de Voltaire’

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Autograph letter signed from Marquis Alessandro Gregorio Capponi to Voltaire, dated 15 September 1745 [inédit]

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Monsieur, mi trovo talmente obbligato nel ricevere il di lei gentilissimo foglio.

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Autograph letter signed from Marquis Alessandro Gregorio Capponi to Voltaire, dated 15 September 1745.

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In this letter, Capponi writes that he is grateful to have received Voltaire’s letter and the accompanying copy of La Poeme de Fontenoy. He notes his own insufficient poetic talents before praising La Poeme. He adds that if the post were more secure, he would send Voltaire some of his antiquarian works but remarks that he believes a dissertation he wrote and sent to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris in March 1745 was lost in the post as he has not received a reply.

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1 f.

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Voltaire’s address in Paris has been added to the margin of f.169v.

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Maria Gabriella, ‘The handwritten collection by Alessandro Gregorio Capponi: news from the codices and the epistolary’, Miscellanea Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae XXIII (Studies and texts 516), 2017.

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