Title: Poésies Par Madame Amable Tastu
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 8vo. pp. [4]-344. Ordinary paper issue in near-contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards. Woodcut vignettes in the text, which is framed in an engraved leaves border.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition. Contains a poem inspired by the forged epitaph of the legendary Helvetian heroine Julia Alpinula, 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 inscription by Paulus Merula. See A. Freeman, Julia Alpinula, pseudo-Heroine of Helvetia. How a Forged Renaissance Epitaph Fostered a National Myth. London, 2015, pp. 7-8.
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