Item
Fabulae Selectae Fontanii e Gallico in Latinum Sermonem Conversae
- Title
- en_US Fabulae Selectae Fontanii e Gallico in Latinum Sermonem Conversae
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: Bilingual: French/Latin
- en_US Original language: fre
- en_US J.B. Giraud
- Creator
- en_US Girard, Jean-Baptiste See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:18:44Z
- en_US 1997-03
- en_US 1775
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:18:44Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1775
- Abstract
- en_US What a kick! This book contains virtually all of La Fontaine's fables done into Latin for schoolboys by a priest of the Oratory. I have tried a few of the fables, and the Latin is good! Since the text is bilingual, one can check along easily, word for word. It takes a few more words per fable to translate La Fontaine's concise French, but Fr. Giraud does a good job at this daunting task. I have especially enjoyed tracking what is behind theSelectae of the title. Which fables, in other words, did he leave out? In this first volume, only two are missing: II 18 on the cat transformed into a woman and IV 1 on the lion in love. Does one start to notice a pattern? I was then surprised to see that VI 21 on the young widow was not skipped! This first volume contains La Fontaine's Books I-VI. It has errata on 449 and a bilingual T of C on 450-61. Full leather. Octavo. Small designs at the beginning of books and the end of fables.
- Identifier
- en_US 2666 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US lat
- Publisher
- en_US Lud. Le Boucher et Laurent. Duesnil
- en_US Rouen
- Subject
- en_US PQ1811.L3G5 1775 See all items with this value
- en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books