Livourne - Place d'Armes
| Reference: | S1165 |
| Author | Paul Edme DE MUSSET |
| Year: | 1855 ca. |
| Zone: | Livorno |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | 180 x 140 mm |
€65.00
| Reference: | S1165 |
| Author | Paul Edme DE MUSSET |
| Year: | 1855 ca. |
| Zone: | Livorno |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | 180 x 140 mm |
€65.00
Description
View taken from Voyage pittoresque en Italie. partie septentrionale / par M. Paul de Musset.
This is a delightful and learned guide through the cities and villages of Italy, which contains engravings by the Rouargue brothers.
Paul's journey to Italy lasted almost a year: he left in December 1842 and returned in the autumn of the following year. In Marseilles he embarked on the ship "Pharamond" which took him to Genoa, where he stayed about a month. From Genoa, the Tuscan bastion Leopoldo took him to Naples, where he stayed three months, making several trips in the region. On April 8 he embarked on the ship "Mongibello" in the direction of Messina, for a tour of Sicily of about six weeks. Back in Naples, he went by stagecoach through the Papal States to Rome, where he stayed for forty days. Then it was the turn of Florence, Bologna, Ferrara, Padua, Venice. Enchanted by the city so dear to his brother, he would have liked to stay there for a long time but, lacking money, he was forced to continue to Milan. After a visit to the lake of Como, he took the way back through the St. Gotthard, Basel and Strasbourg. This is the itinerary, according to the account that is made in the first version, published in 1845 with the title Course en voiturin (Italie et Sicile).
In the years 1855-1856 came out another very extensive version of the same journey: two large volumes of more than five hundred pages each, entitled Voyage pittoresque en Italie. Partie septentrionale, and Voyage pittoresque en Italie (Partie méridionale) et en Sicile.
Copperplate, in excellent condition.
Literature
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Vicaire V, 1314.
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Paul Edme de Musset, born in Paris 7 November 1804, died in the same city 17 May 1880, was a French writer.
Brother of Alfred de Musset, he was well known for his family, who were very famous at the time, as well as for his own writings, including biographies.
In 1859, two years after the death of his brother, Paul de Musset published Lui et Elle, a parody of the autobiography of George Sand, Elle et Lui, published six months previously and dealing with his relationship with Alfred de Musset. In 1861, he married Aimée d'Alton, who had also been involved with Alfred de Musset and whom she had also been engaged to in her youth.
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Literature
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Vicaire V, 1314.
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Paul Edme de Musset, born in Paris 7 November 1804, died in the same city 17 May 1880, was a French writer.
Brother of Alfred de Musset, he was well known for his family, who were very famous at the time, as well as for his own writings, including biographies.
In 1859, two years after the death of his brother, Paul de Musset published Lui et Elle, a parody of the autobiography of George Sand, Elle et Lui, published six months previously and dealing with his relationship with Alfred de Musset. In 1861, he married Aimée d'Alton, who had also been involved with Alfred de Musset and whom she had also been engaged to in her youth.
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