Antoine HEROET, dict La Maison neuve. La Parfaicte amye... In-8, overlapping vellum, smooth spine ( Pagnant). Tchemerzine-Scheler, III-691. 96 / A-F8 / 95 x 140 mm. Second edition based on the first published by Étienne Dolet in the same year. The author, a French poet of the mid-sixteenth century, embarked on an ecclesiastical career and became bishop of Digne in 1552. This prelate was also known in his day for his poetic activity, and enjoyed a fairly high reputation in his day. La Parfaicte amye is his masterpiece. In it, Antoine Heroet sublimates human love by making it part of divine love. La parfaiticte amye's love is free of all sensual thought. She has only one friend, who is not handsome; this friend dies and, without being sorry, she loves him no less, only she waits for death to reunite her with him (Viollet-Le-Duc). This conception of love was opposed to the much less witty, but more amusing, one developed in Amye de Court by sieur La Borderie, amye très positive et fort coquette... This quarrel between the two loves had a prodigious impact, and led to the publication of numerous poems. Handwritten bookplate on title.