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Saggio intr.,trad.e cura di C.Grabher. Firenze, Sansoni 1950,1963, cm.13,5x20,5, pp.XLVIII-640, legatura ed.in tutta tela. Collana I Grandi Classici Stranieri.

Traduzione e note di Igino Gentile. Quarta edizione riveduta e coretta. Milano, Ulrico Hoepli Ed. 1890, cm.10,5,x15,5, pp.168, legatura ed. Collana Manuali.

Prima edizione. Milano, Lerici Ed. 1962, cm.13x21, pp.179, legatura ed. Collana Narratori,26.

Roma, Ist.Poligr.dello Stato 1935, cm.17x25, pp.76, num.ill.bn.nt.e 1 cart.ripieg. brossura

English version by Edward O. Marsh, Jeremy Brooks. London, Eyre Methuen 1980, cm.12x19, pp.107, brossura con copertina figurata a colori. Considered the high point of Gogol's writing for the stage and a masterpiece of dramatic satire, The Inspector General skewers the stupidity, greed, and venality of Russian provincial officials. When it is announced that the Inspector General is coming to visit incognito, Anton, the chief of police, hastens to clean up the town before his arrival. Local officials scurry to hide evidence of bribe-taking and other misdeeds, setting the stage for the arrival from St. Petersburg of Ivan, a penurious gambler and rake who is promptly taken by the townspeople to be the dreaded Inspector General. Ivan, and his servant, Osip, soon take advantage of the situation with hilarious results. First performed in 1836, the play transcends regional and national boundaries to offer a biting, highly entertaining glimpse of universal human foibles and failings.