Title: Observations sur le Pétrone trouvé à Belgrade en 1688. Et imprimé à Paris en 1693. Avec une Lettre sur l’Ouvrage & la Personne de Pétrone
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;"> 12mo. f. [1] (blank), pp. [2], 213, [1], f. [1] (blank). </span><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">Signatures: π1 A-Q⁸⁻⁴ R⁸ S² T1. </span></font><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Calf. Tooled spine on 5 bars, gilded spine title, edges spread in red. Includes headpieces, initials. Stamp "M. Leboulenger, à St.-Aignan." "Extrait du Privilege du Roy" (at end, T verso) gives the author as "George Pelissier," pseudonym of Claude Ignace Brugière de Barante. </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 of the first logical and philological dismissal of the ‘Belgrade fragments’ of the Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter as by ‘un moderne sans goût’. These connective fragments were said to have been found at Belgrade in 1688, but were in fact forged – that is, probably composed or appropriated from a rhetorical exercise of an amateur classicist (see W. Stolz, Petrons Satyricon und François Nodot: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte literarischer Fälschungen. Mainz, 1987; Bib# 4102895/Fr# 374 in this collection) – by the military novelist François Nodot. Nodot published the work as a manuscript ‘discovery’ made by him in war-torn Dalmatia. Nodot replied in 1700, but Pieter Burmann completed the exposure in 1709.</span><br /></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/alma991039112789707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>