Author: WOILLEZ, Catherine Thérèse.
Title: L'orfana di Mosca ossia La giovane educatrice racconto della Sig. Woillez. Prima versione italiana di Ant. M. Izunnia sulla terza edizione francese.
Description: Firenze: Presso Batelli e C. [ca.1850]. 8vo. [4], 229p. Engraved title page. Frontispiece. Dark green calf, gilt. Marbled end-papers. A children's tale which opens with the entry into Moscow of Napoleon's troops, the burning of the city and the subsequent retreat of the French. The original French version, L'orpheline de Moscou, was immensely popular and ran to over 50 editions (earliest in the Bibliothèque Nationale is dated 1835). An English translation came out in New York in 1849. No Italian translation in NUC, BLC or BN Paris. Not in the Osborne or McKell collections of children's books.

Keywords: Russia, Moscow, Napoleon, children's literature, antiquarian


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