Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaye lecteur et glossateur : les annotations manuscrites dans des ouvrages de sa bibliothèque
One of the most curious and neglected aspects of Amelot de La Houssaye’s work lies in its manuscript traces. Two examples already described by Soll and eight new ones are studied in the article. About the manuscript copy of Amelot’s translation of Sarpi, a unique case, we claim that it is a later ve...
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2024
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | One of the most curious and neglected aspects of Amelot de La Houssaye’s work lies in its manuscript traces. Two examples already described by Soll and eight new ones are studied in the article. About the manuscript copy of Amelot’s translation of Sarpi, a unique case, we claim that it is a later version of the printed text, amended by the translator to remove traces of libertinage. In the other cases, we are dealing with autograph apostilles or glosses associated with printed or manuscript texts by various authors. Among the earliest, those that appear on the copy of Tacitus owned by Amelot bring together what he saw as a treasure trove of political wisdom with fragments of various authors picked up in the course of his reading. We find traces of these connections throughout his works and his translations of modern authors: Sarpi, Machiavelli, Gracián, Cardinal d’Ossat and La Rochefoucauld. The handwritten glosses on a print by La Rochefoucauld make it possible to rectify editorial manipulations and errors in the posthumous print in which they were collected; those on a copy of Les Caractères provide an unknown and very early key. Those we found on a copy of one of the first editions of L’homme de cour tell us how this work, one of Amelot’s greatest successes, was reworked several times over the four years of its publication. On the whole these micro-studies are intended to contribute to our knowledge of Amelot’s working method, an essential part of his thought. |
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