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TOMBEAU DE MARGUERITE DE VALOIS ROYNE DE NAVARRE (Le). Faictierement en Disticques Latins par les trois Sœurs Princesses en Angleterre. Depuis traduictz en Grec, Italien, & François par plusieurs des excellent Poëz de la France. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Michel Fezandat & Robert Granjon, 1551. In-8, jansenist green morocco, interior lace, gilt head, untrimmed (Early 20th century binding). First edition of this poetic tomb erected in tribute to Queen Marguerite de Navarre, sister of François I, protector of the arts and distinguished poetess, who died in December 1549. It is dedicated to the late author of the Heptameron by the poet Nicolas Denisot, who signs the dedication with his anagram le Conte d'Alsinois; opposite the dedication is a portrait of the departed queen, dressed in a fur-trimmed coat and wearing a templette, holding a book in her hands, a woodcut probably inspired by a painting in the Musée Condé, dated circa 1540 and attributed to François Clouet. The collection is built around a hundred Latin couplets composed by sisters Anne, Marguerite and Jane Seymour, daughters of the Duke of Somerset, whose tutor Denisot had been. Each is accompanied by a Greek version by Jean Dorat, an Italian translation by Jean-Pierre de Mesmes, and two or three French translations by Joachim du Bellay, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Nicolas Denisot and Antoinette de Loynes. This series of couplets is preceded and followed by some 50 poems by Baïf, Du Bellay, Dorat, Du Tillet, Scévole de Sainte-Marthe and Ronsard; among the 4 unpublished pieces by Le Vendômois are the ode Aux trois sœurs... which opens the collection and praises the poetic talent of the Seymour sisters, a Hymne triomphal and a pastoral ode entitled Aux cendres de Marguerite de Valois. Fine copy, complete with the last leaf containing a Latin poem by Denisot in the form of an epitaph. It bears the engraved armorial bookplate H. D. Seymour Esq. (19th century), perhaps a member of the illustrious family to which the Seymour daughters belonged? Title remounted. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1, no. 64. - Brun, p. 303. - Picot, Rothschild, n°628. - Ronsard, la trompette et la lyre, n°21. - Tchemerzine, IV, p. 374. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°931.
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TOMBEAU DE MARGUERITE DE VALOIS ROYNE DE NAVARRE (Le). Faictierement en Disticques Latins par les trois Sœurs Princesses en Angleterre. Depuis traduictz en Grec, Italien, & François par plusieurs des excellent Poëz de la France. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Michel Fezandat & Robert Granjon, 1551. In-8, jansenist green morocco, interior lace, gilt head, untrimmed (Early 20th century binding). First edition of this poetic tomb erected in tribute to Queen Marguerite de Navarre, sister of François I, protector of the arts and distinguished poetess, who died in December 1549. It is dedicated to the late author of the Heptameron by the poet Nicolas Denisot, who signs the dedication with his anagram le Conte d'Alsinois; opposite the dedication is a portrait of the departed queen, dressed in a fur-trimmed coat and wearing a templette, holding a book in her hands, a woodcut probably inspired by a painting in the Musée Condé, dated circa 1540 and attributed to François Clouet. The collection is built around a hundred Latin couplets composed by sisters Anne, Marguerite and Jane Seymour, daughters of the Duke of Somerset, whose tutor Denisot had been. Each is accompanied by a Greek version by Jean Dorat, an Italian translation by Jean-Pierre de Mesmes, and two or three French translations by Joachim du Bellay, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Nicolas Denisot and Antoinette de Loynes. This series of couplets is preceded and followed by some 50 poems by Baïf, Du Bellay, Dorat, Du Tillet, Scévole de Sainte-Marthe and Ronsard; among the 4 unpublished pieces by Le Vendômois are the ode Aux trois sœurs... which opens the collection and praises the poetic talent of the Seymour sisters, a Hymne triomphal and a pastoral ode entitled Aux cendres de Marguerite de Valois. Fine copy, complete with the last leaf containing a Latin poem by Denisot in the form of an epitaph. It bears the engraved armorial bookplate H. D. Seymour Esq. (19th century), perhaps a member of the illustrious family to which the Seymour daughters belonged? Title remounted. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1, no. 64. - Brun, p. 303. - Picot, Rothschild, n°628. - Ronsard, la trompette et la lyre, n°21. - Tchemerzine, IV, p. 374. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°931.
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