Charles Nodier before Martin Sherlock The first publication of Nodier’s translation of Advice to a Young Poet (Ms 1417, BEC in Besançon)

The first publication of an unfinished translation from Nodier’s youth, taken from Manuscript 1417 from the BEC in Besançon, of a work by the Irish writer Martin Sherlock that created a controversy in 1780 with its virulent attack on Italian poetry.