The Bravo. A Venetian Story.
First Edition of James Fenimore Cooper's The Bravo. A Venetian Story
The Bravo. A Venetian Story.
COOPER, James Fenimore.
Item Number: 87541
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831.
First British edition, which preceded the American edition of Cooper’s first novel with a European setting. Octavo, bound in contemporary 19th century three quarters calf over marbled paper boards, green morocco labels, gilt titles to the spine and lettering. In very good condition. BAL 3850; Spiller & Blackburn 13.
The Bravo is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1831 in three volumes. Inspired by a trip to Europe where he traveled through much of Italy, the novel is set in Venice. The Bravo is the first of Cooper's three novels to be set in Europe. This group of three novels, which one critic would call Cooper's "European trilogy", include The Heidenmauer and The Headsman. It largely focuses on political themes, especially the tension between the social elite and other classes. It was adapted into a play, La Vénétienne, by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois; this in turn served as the basis for an opera, Il bravo, by Saverio Mercadante, which premiered in 1839 at La Scala.
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