1687 Nouveaux Dialogues des Morts

Description

Early Edition, Leather Binding

Complete in three parts, with 'Nouveaux Dialogues des Morts' parts I and II, and 'Jugement de Pluton', with a continuous pagination and register.

An early edition, first published in 1683.

In French.

Register runs as A-O12, P10.

Collated, complete. Collated from Jisc from a copy held at the University of Bristol Libraries. 

A series of imaginary conversations between the dead, the author pairing together couples for a conversation, whether or not they were contemporaries, ancient or modern, mythological or historical.

Some of the conversations included are Diane of Poitiers and Anne Boleyn, Dido and Stratonice of Syria, Homer and Aesop, Sappho and Laura de Sade, Charles V and Erasmus, Cosimo II de' Medici and Bernice II, Plato and Margaret of Scotland, Mary Stuart and David Riccio, Seneca and Paul Scarron, Brutus and Faustina the Younger, Helen and Fulvia, and more. 

The conservations vary much in conversation, the figures talking about philosophy, delicacy, oddities of fortunes, immortality of the name, the comparison of ambition and love, madness, the power of women, the concern for the future, vanity and indiscretion, freedom, and more.

By Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, a note figure of the Age of Enlightenment.