L'Infortuné Napolitain, ou les avantures du Seigneur Rozelli (1708). (Q386955)
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1st ed., Paris 1708
- L'Infortuné Napolitain, ou les avantures du Seigneur Rozelli (1708).
- Rozelli
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| English | L'Infortuné Napolitain, ou les avantures du Seigneur Rozelli (1708). |
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L'Infortuné Napolitain, ou les avantures du Seigneur Rozelli [...] 1708.
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Rozelli offers his life as a chain of disasters. Usually those who took care of him had to die in the event: His father, a chevalier, was killed by a noble Italian lady after she had to witnesses the act Rozelli owes his life to - he is the child of the chevalier and a Turkish slave the chevalier originally presented to the famous lady. Rozelli's mother (the Turkish slave), born in Athens, dies at Rozelli's birth (while trying to recover the chevalier). The people who take care of the infant die as they are soon suspected of having murdered the chevalier. Rozelli himself is enslaved by Turks and, coincidentally, comes into the possession of his family in Athens. He falls in love with his half-sister, escapes his slavery before he has to accept a new faith. Several people die in the event of his escape. Back in Italy he makes a career as catholic clergyman. An "enlightened" interest in astrology and the Kabala brings him into trouble here. He converts to the Jewish religion after falling in love with a lady of that faith. Writing a treatise under the title De duobus Impostoribus the Inquisition takes care of him. He flies to Geneva, to France, to Holland, earns his money as seller of liquors and proprietor of coffee-houses. A female servant loves him as only his wife could do - he, however, tries to marry a woman of a favourable condition and fails. All this is told without any climax or signal of satire. (English)
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