Opera - Dorat - 1777
7/8/24"Les Prôneurs ou le Tartuffe littéraire" is a satirical verse comedy written in 1777 by the French poet and playwright Claude Joseph Dorat.[3] It satirizes the French Encyclopedists and philosophers like Denis Diderot, who were known as the "philosophical party".[3]The comedy takes its title from Molière's famous play "Tartuffe", which satirized religious hypocrisy. Dorat's work is a literary satire targeting the Encyclopedists and their philosophical ideas, portraying them as the "Tartuffes" or hypocrites of the literary world.[3]The copy in the Kaluga United Museum-Reserve collection is a rare lifetime edition published in 1777 in the Dutch Republic. It is a small leather-bound volume with a gold-embossed cover and gilded edges, lavishly illustrated with engravings by the renowned French artist Clément-Pierre Marillier.[3] This exemplifies the high production values and artistic collaborations involved in publishing Dorat's popular works during that era.[3]Source: Perplexity.aiCurated by Gabrielle Ly....
