RIGAULT, Hippolyte. Histoire de la querelle des Anciens et d - Lot 150

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RIGAULT, Hippolyte. Histoire de la querelle des Anciens et d - Lot 150
RIGAULT, Hippolyte. Histoire de la querelle des Anciens et des Modernes. Paris, L. Hachette et Cie, 1856. In-8, midnight blue half-maroquin, ribbed spine decorated with gilded caissons with central gilded fleurons, top edge gilt. IV - 490 pages. Scattered foxing. First edition, by Hippolyte Rigault, professor of rhetoric at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and substitute at the Collège de France. The author examines the idea of progress, its place in antiquity, its relationship with medieval Christianity and its reactivation by the Moderns, tracing its genealogy in pre-17th-century authors such as Roger Bacon and Henri Estienne. This is followed by detailed discussions of the arguments of Perrault, Boileau, Swift, Abbé de Régnier and others. A fascinating, in-depth and lively literary history. Good half-maroquin binding.
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