Books by Cyrano de Bergerac

Gli stati e Gli Imperi della Luna sono racconti fantastici estremamente vivaci, che narrano di un viaggio meraviglioso, realistico e poetico, nei paesi della Luna e del Sole. È un pretesto per l'esposizione di ardite teorie filosofiche, scientifiche e religiose, come il movimento della terra, l'eternità e l'infinità dei mondi, la costituzione atomica dei corpi, i principi fisici dell'aerostato. Rientrato in casa dopo una passeggiata al chiaro di luna in compagnia di amici, l'autore si mette intorno al corpo una cintura fatta di ampolle piene d'acqua di rugiada la quale, evaporando attratta dal sole, lo solleva sino a farlo arrivare nella Nouvelle France.Cyrano de Bergerac, nato il 6 marzo 1619, dotato di un temperamento bizzarro e fantasioso, discendeva da un'antica famiglia parigina. A Parigi ebbe modo di leggere le opere di filosofi e artisti come Campanella, Moro, Castiglione e Luciano. Il primo duello lo ebbe all'età di venti anni; il gusto rimastogli da questa esperienza, uniti al suo carattere incline all'avventura, gli fecero maturare l'idea di entrare nella compagnia delle Guardie, dove si rese celebre per la spavalderia e i numerosi duelli. Colpito non ancora ventiseienne dal mal francese, si concentrò sullo studio di Galileo, Copernico e Gassendi. Morì a soli 36 anni, nel 1655, a Sannois.

A Voyage To The Moon: Histoire Comique Des E¿Tats Et Empires De La Lune (The Comical History Of The States And Empires Of The World Of The Moon) Translated By Archibald Lovell & Edited By Curtis Hidden PageThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions.2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work.We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!

Published posthumously and intended mainly as a satire of its age, this imaginative and entertaining tale - here presented in a lively translation by Andrew Brown - is now considered one of the pioneering works of science fiction."