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Algarotti, Francesco

The Congress of Kythera, 1768

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€ 80 - 120

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€ 103

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Information

Paris, Prault, 1768. In the 12th. Intaglio title page in frame, elegant figured intaglio headers, one of which with a portrait of Pompadour, to whom the work is dedicated, slight redness, contemporary sponged calfskin binding.

Specialist Notes

The operetta, published for the first time in 1745 by the famous Venetian man of letters Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764), consists of a brilliant parody of the amorous customs of European nations, through the fiction of a congress on the island where Love questions three ladies representing France, Italy and England.