Family Name:

Grillet-Desprades

First Name:

Joseph

Birth Date:

Tue, Dec 26, 1752

Birth Place:

Limoges

Death Date:

Wed, Jun 11, 1823

Death Place:

Souché

Personal info:

Education Grillet-Desprades was the son of his homonymous father, who gained the title of count for his services to the local nobility.
Career The chronology of Grillet-Desprades's career is uncertain, and can easily be confused with that of his father. As a Catholic cleric, he was at some point the general vicar of the city of Die, close to Lyon, and abbot in Vernusse, in central France. Grillet-Desprades also was the personal tutor of the count of Artois's sons.

Translations

Original Title	Translation title	Author
Il giorno	Les Quatre parties du jour à la ville, traduction libre de l'italien de l'abbé Parini, sur la 6e édition faite à Milan en 1771	Giuseppe Parini

Other Works

Title	Publication Year	Publisher
Essai sur l'honneur, par M.G. Desprades	1805	Le Normant
De la charte constitutionnelle	1814	Michaud Frères
De la constitution qui convient au peuple français	1814	Michaud Frères

Grillet-Desprades is known to have translated the first two parts of Giuseppe Parini's poem in blank verse Il giorno.

Deborah Gjinaj, 'La traduzione del Giorno di Joseph Grellet Desprades', unpublished MA thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2017.

Simon Burrows, The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe, vol. II, 'Enlightenment Bestsellers', Bloomsbury, 2018, 25.

Lodovica Braida, L'autore assente: l'anonimato nell'editoria italiana del Settecento, Editori Laterza, 2019, passim.

Il giorno
Translation Title: Les Quatre parties du jour à la ville, traduction libre de l'italien de l'abbé Parini, sur la 6e édition faite à Milan en 1771
Original Author: Giuseppe Parini

Translation: Les Quatre parties du jour à la ville, traduction libre de l'italien de l'abbé Parini, sur la 6e édition faite à Milan en 1771
Publisher: Dorez
Pub. Place: Paris
Pub. Date: 1776
Lang: French
Note:
A second edition was published in 1778 in Milan and Paris, under the title 'L'Art de s'amuser à la ville, ou les Quatre parties du jour, traduction libre'.

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