LAMARTINE Alphonse de (1790-1869)

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LAMARTINE Alphonse de (1790-1869)
THREE autograph MANUSCRIPTS, Harmonies and Meditation; 10 sheets in fol. written on both sides, tabbed on white vellum leaves; bound in one volume in fol. Jansenist blue morocco, lined, smooth spine, blue moire endpapers, double endpapers, gold edges, slipcase (G. Cretté succ. de Marius Michel). Beautiful manuscripts of two Harmonies and a Meditation. - Harmonie ieme [the number is left blank] - Quare tristis es anima mea? Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (III, 9), where the title appears in French: "Pourquoi mon âme est-elle triste?". 5 leaves; 246 verses. Some erasures and corrections; variants with the printed text. "Why do you groan incessantly O my soul answer me? where does this weight of sadness that weighs on you today come from? to the tomb that devours us in mourning you have not yet led your last friends!". - Harmony 16th - The loss of the Anio - to the Marquis de Barol. Poetic and religious harmonies (II, 3). 3 leaves; 146 verses. Manuscript dated at the end: "Florence 10 December 1826". Variations with the print. "I dreamed once, at the sound of her waterfalls; lying on the cauldron that Horace had trodden in the shadow of the old arcades where the Sybil sleeps under her collapsed temple I saw her fall into the deep caves" . - Twentieth Meditation - Philosophy - to the Marquis de L.M.F. Poetic meditations (XX). 2 leaves; 128 verses. The manuscript bears at the head of the manuscript a correction as to the classification of this Meditation: "Meditation [twenty-first striped] twentieth". Lamartine had sent this meditation (November 5, 1821) to the Marquis de LA MAISONFORT, Minister of France in Florence, of whom he hoped to become a collaborator. The manuscript, written on a paper watermarked with the arms and number of King and dated 1818, presents some corrections. "Oh who will carry me away to the warm shores where the Arno crowned with its pale shadows on the walls of the Medici in its arrété run reflects the palace by a wise inhabitant and seems at the flattering sound of its slower wave to whisper the great names of Petrarch and Dante...". PROVENANCE Louis BARTHOU (I, 399), Daniel SICKLES (II, 397)
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