I paesi lontani e lo straniero nelle Lettere curiose

The Lettere curiose translate into Italian a selection of texts from the Marquis d'Argens' Lettres Juives, a work that had great success throughout Europe. The Italian version, attributed to the Venetian Ponziano Conti, succeeds in a difficult undertaking: to offer the public of Italian readers a text that can not only overcome the barriers of the national censorships and the obstacles of the cultural differences, but also preserve the elements the caused the success of the French text