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Unpublished manuscript written in an unknown hand, probably that of one of the Marquis' scribes. Crossings-out and strikethroughs by the scribe and 7 annotations and strikethroughs by the Marquis de Sade.
Provenance: family archives.
Very important preparatory manuscript for the Voyage d'Italie, in which the young Marquis de Sade, under the cover of a study of the Roman judicial system, develops the great philosophical themes of his future novels.
The first leaf of the manuscript is missing; the Marquis did not retain it during the different stages in which he developed his text. We know this because the notebook was fou