No copies have been preserved, but reportedly Molière's translation might have been available in April 1662. The date here is strangely specific for something this uncertain, but there is a reference.
No copies have been preserved, but reportedly Molière's translation might have been available in April 1662. The date here is strangely specific for something this uncertain, but there is a reference.
I think Greenblatt mentions that in The Swerve--as well as Montaigne's personal copy, discovered because of a marginal note, and a manuscript of the whole poem in Machiavelli's hand demonstrated by handwriting analysis.