RONSARD, Pierre de.

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RONSARD, Pierre de.
Les Hymnes. - Hymn of Bacus. With the Latin version by Jean Dorat. - The second book of hymns. Paris, André Wechel, 1555-1556. 3 works in one volume in-4 (222 x 152 mm) of 195 pp., 2 ff.n.ch. for the Hymns; 29 pp., 1 ff.n.ch. for the Hymn of Bacus; 4 ff.n.ch., 103 pp. for the Second Book of Hymns; soft vellum (binding of the period). Precious reunion of 3 original editions dedicated to Cardinal de Chatillon, protector of the poet. First separee edition of the Hymn of Bacus. A veritable gallery of portraits of the famous figures of the time, the Hymns? contain the first essays of a scientific and philosophical poetry? (Ronsard, La trompette et la lyre..., p. 94). There are also two of the most appreciated pieces of the Vendomois, already at his time: the Hymn of Gold, and the Hymn of Death (? Mais puisque il faut mourir... ? ). Ronsard is here in turn poet and philosopher, wishing, in the wake of Orpheus, to penetrate? the secrets of nature and of the heavens?. The Hymn of Bacus had been published a few months earlier in the first volume of Meslanges (Paris, Gilles Corrozet, 1555) but without the Latin translation of Dorat. These 3 editions are rare. USTC locates only 3 copies of the Hymns in the United States (Pierpont-Morgan, New York; Library of Congress, Washington; Houghton Library, Cambridge), and only one of the Hymn to Bacus at Pierpont-Morgan, New York. No copies of Second hymn books are known to exist in the United States. Wormholes in the margins, traces of dampness and mould, especially towards the end, with restorations to the last 10 leaves touching the text. Tchemerzine - Scheler, V, 426; Diesbach, Bibliothèque Jean Bonna, 16th century, 312 (for Bacus, and note for all 3 editions).
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