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GAYOT DE PITAVAL & ARIDÉE

Le faux Aristarque reconnu, ou lettres critiques sur le dictionnaire néologique , Pantalon-Phoebus , le discours de Mathanasius , les voyages des deux Gulliver... de l'abbé Desfontaines/ Anecdotes grecques, ou aventures secrètes d'Aridée

Chez Guillaume Le Sincère, chez la veuve Guillaume, à Amsterdam, à Paris 1733, 1731, grd in-12 (16,5x10cm), xi, (1bc) 250pp. et viij, 240pp., relié.

first editions of these two books. Greek anecdotes seem scarce, we only found one copy held by the British Library. Full speckled calf ice time, back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. A tag library on the head cover. Various frictions, 2 corners bumped. The term of Aristarchus (considered the inventor of criticism in the fourth century BC) designated under the old regime judicious and informed criticism. The book is (outside epigrams Voltaire) one of the most vocal texts written against Father Desfontaine, In these "letters critical", the author seeks to expose in detail the errors, improbabilities and barbarisms Desfontaines. The "Warning" sets the tone: Pitaval denies him almost all original, and denounces "The plagiarism of the Abbot Desfontaines which assigns Books that are not hatched from his brain." The Dictionary is not neological him and "the God Mercury plagiarists is his boss. "Not more than the translation of Gulliver. The sample is representative Pitaval: attacks against literary criticism Desfontaines often go hand in hand with the accusation of plagiarism. Critics continue these attacks after the death of Desfontaines, burying the practices of an ancient widespread criticism in the seventeenth and eighteenth and promoting the development of a new and true criticism. Greek stories are a historical novel about the brother of Alexander the Great. We found it under the name Aridée the British Library, although this name is also that of the hero. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information!

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