Le <em>Lettres</em> di Noverre nel Veneto: l’<em>Encyclopédie méthodique</em> e la «Gazzetta Urbana Veneta»

Olivia Sabee

doi:10.6092/issn.2036-1599/14123

Authors

Olivia Sabee Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA

Assistant professor of dance at Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania, USA) where she teaches dance history, choreography, and ballet technique. She received her doctorate in French Literature from Johns Hopkins University and has published articles on French ballet (1700s and 1800s) and its context in journals such as «Dance Chronicle», «Eighteenth-Century Studies», and «Romance Studies». Her monograph Theories of Ballet in the Age of the "Encyclopédie" is forthcoming in 2022 from Liverpool University Press.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1599/14123

Abstract

This article examines the Italian translations of the articles on dance published in the Encyclopédie méthodique edited by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke (1736-1798), which includes excerpts of Jean-Georges Noverre’s Lettres sur la danse. The writer Antonio Piazza (1742-1825), editor of the «Gazzetta Urbana Veneta», decided in turn to publish excerpts of articles from the Encyclopédie méthodique, including several excerpts of Noverre’s Lettres. Through this Venetian publication, the translation in Spain of Noverre’s Lettres included in the Encyclopédie méthodique, and in several French periodicals, Noverre’s ideas were disseminated in contexts that were no longer associated with the name and personage of the French theorist and choreographer.