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Article: Antoine de la Sale: Il paradiso della regina Sibilla.(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2004
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Antoine de la Sale: Il paradiso della regina Sibilla, a cura di Patrizia Romagnoh, Collana 'di monte in monte' 15 (Verbania: Tarara Edizioni, 2001), ix + 211 pp.; 6 black-and-white illustrations, 16 colour plates. ISBN 88-86593-29-5. 15.06 [euro]. Despite its somewhat obscure provenance in an Italian series dedicated to the cultural history of mountains, this book is in fact a very useful and accessible edition of the fifteenth-century French author Antoine de La Sale's first work, Le Paradis de la reine Sibylle, written in 1439, complete with a facing-page translation in modern Italian. This little-known and even less commented-on work is a highly original text, being ...