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COMPLETE TITLE: Traité de la Comédie et des Spectacles, selon la Tradition de l'Eglise, Tirée des Conciles et des Saints Peres: suivi de Decreta Conciliorum de Comdia et Spectaculis Doctrina SS. Patrum et Comdia et Spectaculis.
A patron of Molière and his company from 1653 to 1656, Conti became after his religious conversion, one of the most violent critics of theater and particularly of comedy. His treatise, with printing date 18 December 1666, was published posthumously, about 10 months after the death of the author. The privilege, granted by Pierre Promé, was shared by the latter with Louis Billaine who printed the text with a title page dated 1666 to allow Promé, on the basis of the previous agreements, to exhaust his stock.
LATER EDITIONS:
Traité de la Comédie et des Spectacles, selon la Tradition de l'Eglise, Tirée des Conciles et des Saints Peres, Paris, chez LouIs Billaine, 1667; Paris, chez Pierre Promé, 1667.
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Second edition: Paris, chez Louis Billaine, 1669.
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Between 1677 and 1881 another three editions were published:
- Cologne, chez J. Neelson, 1677.
- Paris, chez Robert Pépie, 1684.
- Armand de Bourbon Prince de Conti Traité de la Comédie et des Spectacles. Neue Ausgabe von Karl Vollmöller, Heilbronn, Gebr. Henninger, 1881. Reproduction of the edition of 1667.
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RECENT EDITIONS:
Reprint of the edition of 1669: Cambridge (Mass.), s.n., c1990.
Published in: Pierre Nicole, Traité de la comédie et autres pièces d'un procès du théâtre, ed. by Laurent Thirouin, Paris, Honoré Champion, 1998.
TRANSLATIONS:
Italian: Trattato intorno alla Commedia e altri Spettacoli secondo la Tradizione della Chiesa. Scritto in Francese dal Ser[enissi]mo Principe di Conti Armando di Borbone. E tradotto dal c. D.C. d. t., Roma, Fulgoni, 1753 (see). |
