La folie Baudelaire Roberto Calasso Book

Hardback with book jacket Published 2008; English translation 2012 by Alastair McEwen In excellent pre-owned condition MSRP $35 In La Folie Baudelaire, Roberto Calasso—one of the most original and acclaimed writers on literature, art, culture, and mythology—turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in the nineteenth century who created what was later called "the Modern." Roberto Calasso (30 May 1941 – 28 July 2021): an Italian writer and publisher Charles Pierre Baudelaire (9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867): a French poet who also worked as an essayist, art critic and translator tags: student art history university Ingres Delacroix Manet Degas 18th Century illustrated library commentary impressionist impressionism period art biography expressionism expressionist anthro