- RIVAROL (Antoine de)] DANTE ALIGHIERI: The Inferno. Poem by Dante. New translation. London and Paris, Mérigot et Barrois, 1783; in 8°, XLVII, 503 pp. 1 p. errata, half brown basane, smooth spine decorated. Binding of the period. Rivarol worked five years on this translation from an Italian edition; on the eve of its printing, he took it back to adapt it to the taste of the time, more frivolous than rigorous. A fine copy of this rare edition.
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- RIVAROL (Antoine de)] DANTE ALIGHIERI: The Inferno. Poem by Dante. New translation. London and Paris, Mérigot et Barrois, 1783; in 8°, XLVII, 503 pp. 1 p. errata, half brown basane, smooth spine decorated. Binding of the period. Rivarol worked five years on this translation from an Italian edition; on the eve of its printing, he took it back to adapt it to the taste of the time, more frivolous than rigorous. A fine copy of this rare edition.