CARACCIOLI (Louis-Antoine). La grandeur d'âme.... Lot 69

[CARACCIOLI (Louis-Antoine). La grandeur d'âme. Frankfurt, Chez Bassompierre et Van den Berghen, 1762; in-12, XII-340 pp. bound in contemporary full calf, spine decorated with 5 nerves, red morocco title-piece, edge painted in red. Louis-Antoine Caraccioli, born in 1719 in Le Mans and died in 1803 (at 83 years old) in Paris, was a French polygraph writer, author of literary, historical, political, theological works, etc. He came from a younger branch of the Neapolitan house of that name, and in 1739 entered the Oratorians, which he left shortly afterwards, stayed for a time in Poland, where he educated Prince Rzewuski, and then returned to Paris, where he devoted himself entirely to letters and lived on the product of his pen. Ruined by the French Revolution, he received a pension of 2,000 livres from the Convention in 1795. Work dedicated to his imperial and royal apostolic majesty.