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GALIANI Ferdinando, abbé (1728-1787) littérateur et économiste
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GALIANI Ferdinando, abbé (1728-1787) littérateur et économiste
Friend of the Philosophers.
L.A.S. "Galiani", Naples January 4, 1772, to Mme d'ÉPINAY| 3 pages in-4, address (small hole by breaking of the seal).
Beautiful and rare letter.
He thanks Mme d'Épinay for her charming and delightful letter: "it is all of a breath. It flows like a stream water| it goes from thread to thread, and passes and goes from one subject to another without being noticed.
I thought I was dreaming, and I have the pride to think that you had wanted to write to me several times and that the matter, long stopped, has flowed precipitately by the first exit that it has met "... He teases her about her project to make a musketeer M. le Conseiller, asking her why she doesn't make a young M. d'Épinay. In France, one has the rage to make something of one's children| in Naples, one only makes heirs of them| "there is never any question of sitting on fleurs-de-lis, nor of lying on the bed of honor. One sits on things, and lies on mattresses. The Empress can spend as much as she wants on paintings, the Turk has undertaken to pay her debts, and he will keep his word"... He continues jokingly, wishing to "turn himself into a cucumber". He cannot console himself with his distance from Paris. He relates the first inoculation made in Naples by Gatti and hopes that the practice will spread...
Friend of the Philosophers.
L.A.S. "Galiani", Naples January 4, 1772, to Mme d'ÉPINAY| 3 pages in-4, address (small hole by breaking of the seal).
Beautiful and rare letter.
He thanks Mme d'Épinay for her charming and delightful letter: "it is all of a breath. It flows like a stream water| it goes from thread to thread, and passes and goes from one subject to another without being noticed.
I thought I was dreaming, and I have the pride to think that you had wanted to write to me several times and that the matter, long stopped, has flowed precipitately by the first exit that it has met "... He teases her about her project to make a musketeer M. le Conseiller, asking her why she doesn't make a young M. d'Épinay. In France, one has the rage to make something of one's children| in Naples, one only makes heirs of them| "there is never any question of sitting on fleurs-de-lis, nor of lying on the bed of honor. One sits on things, and lies on mattresses. The Empress can spend as much as she wants on paintings, the Turk has undertaken to pay her debts, and he will keep his word"... He continues jokingly, wishing to "turn himself into a cucumber". He cannot console himself with his distance from Paris. He relates the first inoculation made in Naples by Gatti and hopes that the practice will spread...