Lot n° 251
Estimation :
500 - 600
EUR
RECAMIER, Juliette (1777-1849), - Lot 251
RECAMIER, Juliette (1777-1849),
woman of letters. Autograph manuscript entitled Le Triomphe de l'Amour / chant premier. S.l.n.d. [1818]. 2 pp. large in-4. Text written in the right margin.
The most beautiful woman of her time translates the great love poem of Petrarch.
Beautiful verse translated from the Italian : "[...] Love, spite, pain, the season had brought me back to this solitary place where my tired heart likes to lay down the weight of its troubles. There, in the middle of the greenery, my voice extinguished in my tears, overcome by sleep, I saw a great light illuminating a thousand pictures of pain and some images of pleasure [...]".
Autograph signed by his niece Amélie Lenormant "1st page of a translation of Petrarch undertaken at the beginning of 1818 by M. Ballanche, M. de Montmorency and Mme Récamier at the Vallée Aux Loups. This page is in the hand of Mme Récamier. This 7th February 1851".
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