Un témoignage inédit du débat italien sur le Traité des trois imposteurs

The erudite scholar Francesco Daniele (1740-1812), historiograph of the king of Naples, had announced a study of the laws and charters of the emperor Frédéric II de Hohenstaufen, which remained unfinished at his death. During his research, he made contact with Lorenzo Mehus (1717-1802), a protégé of the baron Philipp von Stosch and founder in 1742 of the Giornale de’ letterati of Florence. In this periodical is to be found a review of an edition of the correspondence of Pierre des Vigne in which is raised the question of his composition of the treatise De tribus Impostoribus. The correspondence between Daniele and Mehus also throws new light on the composition and attribution of the famous treatise.