{"id":462,"date":"2016-05-13T11:46:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T15:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=462"},"modified":"2016-07-24T06:26:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T10:26:37","slug":"suid104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Voltaire, <i>Voltaire&#8217;s Correspondence<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"aei-root\" lang=\"en-GB\"><!-- suid=104 --><\/p>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta\">\n<dt>Performer Name:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Venue:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Date:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\">&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Author:<\/dt>\n<dd> Voltaire<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Written:<\/dt>\n<dd> 1745<\/dd>\n<dt>Language:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\"> French<\/dd>\n<dt>Publication Title:<\/dt>\n<dd> Voltaire&#8217;s Correspondence<\/dd>\n<dt>Article Title:<\/dt>\n<dd> Letter 2848, to Charles Augustin Feriol, comte d&#8217;Argental<\/dd>\n<dt>Page Numbers:<\/dt>\n<dd> 14:95<\/dd>\n<dt>Additional Info:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\">&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Publisher:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Place of Publication:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Published:<\/dt>\n<dd>1953<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Text:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"aei-blockquote\"  lang=\"fr\">\n<p>Dites \u00e0 m. de Solare que ni Virgile ni le Tasse n&apos;ont \u00e9t\u00e9 <i>improvisatori<\/i>: on ne fait sur le champ que des choses m\u00e9diocres tout au plus. Ce go\u00fbt d&apos;<i>improvisare<\/i> est le sceau de la barbarie chez les Italiens. Voil\u00e0 nos troubadours ressuscit\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"aei-blocktext\">\n<p>Letter dated January 1745.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta-unimportant\">\n<dt>Collected by:<\/dt>\n<dd> DP<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter to Charles Augustin Feriol, Voltaire expresses the opinion that the Italian improvisatori only produce mediocre poetry, and compares them to the French troubadors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,134],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1707,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}