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Adolphe Ribaux
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> Théatre National Julia Alpinula Drame en cinq Actes et huit Tableaux en Prose par Adolphe Ribaux Représenté dans l’amphithéatre romain d’Avenches, sous les auspices de la Société de Développement de cette ville, les 30 septembre et 8 octobre 1893. Repris les 9, 10 et 16 juin 1894. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 8vo. pp. [4], IX, [1], IV, [2], 134. Original printed wrappers, gatherings loose. Kept in a phase box.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">First edition, ‘Quatrième Mille,’ of this dramatic work on the daughter of a leader of an Helvetian uprising against the Romans, who died soon after her attempt to save her father’s life. Julia Alpinula’s story was in fact a humanist hoax based on a fabricated epitaph by Paulus Merula. See A. Freeman, Julia Alpinula, pseudo-Heroine of Helvetia. How a Forged Renaissance Epitaph Fostered a National Myth. London, 2015, p. 6, 12-14, 23-28. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991042160279707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>
| Publisher | Henri Mignot, Éditeur |
|---|---|
| Pages | 158 |
| Search language | french |
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