Vie de Jésus. Prima edizione

In-8° (220x145mm), pp. (4) LIX, 462, (4), legatura del tempo m. pelle verde cupo con titolo, filetti e decori su dorso a nervetti. Sguardie marmorizzate. Ottimo esemplare completo dell'occhietto.Edizione originale di uno dei libri seminali del XIX secolo, l'opera che per prima pose le basi dello studio della figura di Gesù inteso solo come uomo e dell'esegesi neotestamentaria su basi esclusivamente storiche e depurate di qualsiasi residuo teologico. Concepita come primo volume dell'"Histoire des origines du Christianisme", l'opera costituisce un capolavoro di ricostruzione storica come di stile. "It is a pastoral idyll with the central figure a gentle, albeit oracular visionary, his power to work miracles a part of his unique personality -the son of man, but not the Son of God. In this great work it seems clear that the audience he has found was the one he sought: the general reading public rather than the limited coterie of scholars and there is no doubt of the fact or the degree of his success.. an immediate and resounding success both at home and abroad. In six months sixty thousand copies of the French edition had been sold and edition succeeded edition... Immediate success was partly a succès de scandale but this would not have kept the book alive. It is Renan's approach to the subject and his beautiful prose that gave it lasting eminence" (PMM 352). "C'est le livre plus célèbre d'Ernest Renan et le premier volume de l'Hisoire des origines du Christianisme". on peut considérer cette "Vie de Jésus" comme une oeuvre de vulgarisation: l'auteur cherche à déterminer ce qui, au point de vue "scientifique", est de créance dans la vie du Nazaréen" (Laffont-Bompiani, IV, 681). Clouzot, 231. P.M.M., 352. En français dans le texte, 285. Carteret, II, 250. Vicaire, VI, 1016.