CANUDO Riccioto (1877 -1923) - Lot 250

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CANUDO Riccioto (1877 -1923) - Lot 250
CANUDO Riccioto (1877 -1923) Reunion of a typescript and a letter signed. Dante and the Poetry of Love. Typescript signed, Passy, undated, 6 pages in-4 with title, corrections, additions and autograph signature in black ink. A note by an unidentified hand attached to this text explains that Mr. Riccioto Canudo inaugurated this year at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sociales a course on the Divine Comedy which he created under the title Lectura Dantis. In one of his new, essentially aesthetic interpretations of Dante's poem, Mr. Riccioto Canudo exposes his very personal conclusions on the much debated question of Dante's love poetry. It is a fragment of this lesson that we offer to our readers today. Autograph letter signed Captain Canudo, sent to the director of a magazine from the front of Macedonia, Armée d'Orient 1er Cie de Zouaves 1er R.M.A. S.P. 503 by Marseille, undated (during the war 14-18), 1 p. in-8 in black ink. My Dear Director and friend. An infamous copyist, an excellent and brave Zouave, by the way! made a blunder yesterday that I forgot to correct when sending you my poem 'Prayer of a Macedonian prisoner'. I would be very grateful if you would rectify it. It is a line that should be restored as follows: It is that by too many deaths are made the sowing [...]
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