Parny
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Second edition, revised and corrected, of the provocative and quickly censored masterpiece of the pre-romantic reunionese poet evariste parnyit was in , at the end of an 18th century fertile with philosophical and literary upheavals, that "la guerre des dieux anciens et modernes" by evariste de parny was publishedheir to the philosophers, in particular voltaire, who had welcomed him by calling him "my dear tibulle" in , parny was now part of the anti-christian literary movement and pronounced, in the style of a theomachic fable in which pagan deities enter into a rivalry of power against the central figures of christianity, a relentless satire of the clerical world (the debauchery of the nuns, the hypocritical bawdiness of the religious, the simony of the popes) and a sharp criticism of some dogmas, in particular the doctrines of the trinity and the virginity of maryévariste désiré de forges, knight then viscount of parny, was a french poet born on 6 february in saint-paul de l'île bourbon (now reunion island), and died on 5 december in parisare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available\t didot, an vii ()la guerre des dieux, poème en 10 chants, : poem condemned by a decree of 27 june but which was often reprinted clandestinelyplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitelightly rubbed binding, fresh inside, comments in pencil on the first endpaper pages, a nice copy
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