Letter from Voltaire to Alessandro Gregorio Capponi, written from Paris and dated 20 August 1745 [D3199]
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Capon.283.pt.1, f.167r-168v, ‘Lettera di François Marie Arouet de Voltaire’
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Letter from Voltaire to Alessandro Gregorio Capponi, written from Paris and dated 20 August 1745 [D3199]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Il nome del marchese Capponi e si pregiato da tutti i litterati.
Incipit Modernised:
Il nome del marchese Capponi e si pregiato da tutti i litterati.
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Brief Summary:
A letter from Voltaire to Alessandro Gregorio Capponi, written from Paris and dated 20 August 1745. The recipient of the letter has previously been misidentified as Gaspare Cerati.
Detailed Summary:
A letter sent from Voltaire to Alessandro Gregorio Capponi (1683-1746), originally accompanied by a printed copy of La Poeme de Fontenoy [Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, R.G.Lett.Est.IV.71]. Voltaire writes that Capponi is prized by all the literati and that, because of his ‘courteous humanity’, he has no doubts about presenting to him the poem. He notes that the ‘most Christian King’ allowed the poem to be printed in his palace so that Voltaire might have the honour of offering it to Capponi. Voltaire writes that he has always admired Italian poetry and has aspired to have the honour of obtaining the protection of the nation which, he notes, was for many centuries the first and only cultivator of every virtue and science.
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2 ff.
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There is some minor smudging of the text on the final three lines of f.167r. There is an ink stain in the upper left-hand corner of f.168v.
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On the inner margin of f.167r is a note in the hand of Capponi reading: ‘Questa fu ricevuta qui in Roma per la Posta di Francia il di 8 Settembre 1745 Mercoledì insieme col Poema [translation: This was received here in Rome by the French Post on 8 September 1745 Wednesday together with the Poem].’
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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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