Ménippée Satyre, of the virtue of the Catholicon... - Lot 169 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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Ménippée Satyre, of the virtue of the Catholicon... - Lot 169 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
Ménippée Satyre, of the virtue of the Catholicon of Spain, and of the holding of the states of Paris, to which is added a speech on the interpretation of the word of Higuiero del Infierno... Last edition, divided into three volumes, enriched with figures in intaglio. Ratisbone, Mathias Kerner, 1714. 3 volumes in-8 (165 x 109 mm) with an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 5 ff.n.c., XXXII, 428 pp., 12 ff.n.c., 6 engraved plates (of which 2 folding) for volume I; 3 ff.n.c., 474 pp., 17 ff.n.c. for volume II; 2 ff.n.c., 536 pp., 16 ff.n.c. (of which the last one is blank) for volume III. (of which the last is blank) for volume III. Ivory vellum with flaps, smooth spine, handwritten title on the spine (contemporary binding). See Brunet, V, 145. Famous political satire in prose whose title is inspired by a play by Justus Lipsius (1547-1606). "Of all the satires generated by a period fertile with political and religious struggles, this is undoubtedly the most famous. It was born at the very end of the 16th century, at a time when France was experiencing one of the most serious crises in its history: the League. It is a parody of the Estates General, opened by a grotesque procession, which sets the tone for the speeches that follow and which our authors have freely imagined... The success of this work is the perfect adaptation of the literary form to the ideology: Henri IV victorious, it is the triumph of religious freedom (which the Edict of Nantes in 1598 will ensure) and of literary freedom" (Laffont-Bompiani). Beautiful edition, decorated with 6 engraved plates, 2 of which are folding. Trace of wetness in volume III.
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