Louis-Antoine Caraccioli

Louis-Antoine Caraccioli

Marquis Louis-Antoine Caraccioli (November 6, 1719-1803) was a prolific French writer, poet, historian, and biographer long time considered an "enemy of Philosophy" because of his broad apologetic production.

Life

Caraccioli was born and wrote in Paris, though he studied in Mans and travelled in Italy, Germany and Poland. His work was not ranked highly in his time; one of the old French biographical dictionaries, "Nouvelle biographie générale", describes him as "un littérateur" (a maker of literature) rather than "un écrivain." (a writter) Though he died poor, Caraccioli survived the French Revolution, despite his close ties to French aristocracy during the reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI. Caraccioli started his literary career during his travels in Italy. He wrote on a broad range of topics, but he is especially interesting to eighteenth-century scholars of manners, Pope Clement XIV and ultramontanism, among other subjects. Caraccioli is best known among book collectors for his color-printed books -- "Le livre de quatre couleurs" (1757) and "Le livre à la mode" (1759) -- as well as "La jouissance de soi-même" (1759), "Liège de Le véritable mentor" (1759), "Le langage de la raison" (1763), "De la gaieté" (1767), "L’agriculture simplifiée" (1769), "Le Voyage de la Raison en Europe" (1772), and "Lettres intéressantes du pape Clément XIV" (1776), many of which went through numerous editions in Europe and the United States and have been translated into several languages. "Lettres intéressantes du pape Clément XIV", which are considered by many to be forgeries, initially misled many Europeans about the life of the then recently deceased Pope.

One of his most studied/ collected books, "Les adieux de la Maréchale de *** à ses enfants" (1769) (trans. "Advice from a Lady of Quality to her Children, in the Last Stage of a Lingering Illness, In a Series of Evening-Conferences on the Most Interesting Subjects") was written in a series of "conferences" or meetings, which substitute for chapters or the more common use of letters. Unlike most courtesy books, Caraccioli's has the semblance of a plot and reads somewhat like a novel, which ends with the death of the main character. Caraccioli's work evolved a great deal over the half-century in which it was produced, and gradually reflected many modern values. Today many of his books are collected by various libraries throughout Europe and America, especially the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA.

Ruined by the French revolution, he was awarded a 2000 francs pension by the National Convention in 1795.

Major works

* "Caractère de l'amitié"
* "Conversation avec soi-même"
* "Jouissance de soi-même"
* "De la Grandeur d'âme"
* "Tableau de la mort"
* "De la gaieté"
* "Les adieux de la Maréchale de *** à ses enfants"
* "Langage de la raison"
* "Langage de la religion"
* "Religion de l'honnête homme"
* "Le Chrétien du temps"
* "Diogène à Paris"
* "Le Livre à la mode"
* "Vraie manière d'élever les princes"
* "Dictionnaire pittoresque et sententieux"
* "Vie de Clément XIV"
* "Lettres intéressantes du pape Clément XIV"

External links

* [http://www.crlv.org/outils/encyclopedie/afficher.php?encyclopedie_id=202 "Louis-Antoine Caraccioli peintre de l'Italie : une manifestation ignorée de l'ultramontanisme"]

* [http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/Nltr40.htm The Center & Clark Newsletter On Line, no. 40, Fall 2002]

* [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Antoine_Caraccioli French Wikipedia page for Louis-Antoine Caraccioli]

Further reading

Jacques, Martine. "Louis-Antoine Caraccioli, Ecrivian et Voyageur." Lille : Atelier National de Reproduction des Thèses, 2001.


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