DRN translation by Molière

waterholic · February 19, 2023 at 10:16 AM

No copies have been preserved, but reportedly Molière's translation might have been available in April 1662. The date here is strangely specific for something this uncertain, but there is a reference.

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Cassius · February 20, 2023 at 7:52 PM

Charles I am thinking this is more in your department?

Joshua · February 20, 2023 at 7:57 PM

I think Greenblatt mentions that in The Swerve--as well as Montaigne's personal copy, discovered because of a marginal note, and a manuscript of the whole poem in Machiavelli's hand demonstrated by handwriting analysis.

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