Les sauvages, parodie de la tragedie d'Alzire
By: De Messieurs Romagnesi & Riccoboni. En un acte en vers. Représentée pour la premiere fois par les Comédiens italiens, le 5. mars 1736
Contributors: Riccoboni, Antoine-François, 1707-1772
Edition: Seconde edition revûë & corrigée.
Publisher: Chez Prault, pere, Quay des Gesvres, au Paradis.
Published: 1736
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Drama; French drama; Parodies, imitations; Princesses
Notes: A first edition with 46 pages, was printed in Paris in the same year, as were two editions printed in Amsterdam, and one in London in 1736.

A parody of Voltaire's Alzire, ou, Les americains, printed in Paris, 1736; it tells the story of Alzire, a Peruvian princess, who is forcibly married to the son of a Spanish governor, and her Indian lover, who is presumed dead, but returns to reclaim her and exact vengence on her Spanish husband.

Signatures: pi² (pi1 blank, pi1 verso blank) A-C⁸

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head piece; initial.

European Americana 736/213.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting initial blank leaf and title page leaf; title page transcription taken from the digitized copy at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.

John Carter Brown Library copy sewn into later blue paper wrappers.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Frederick Lippitt Fund.