Jacques DU FOUR DE LA CRESPELIERE
Les divertissemens d'amour et autres poésies burlesques et sérieuses
Chez Olivier de Varennes|à Paris 1667|8.50 x 14.50 cm|relié
The rare first edition.
Contemporary white vellum binding. Smooth spine. Some surface wear and staining.
Binding partially detached. Some dampstaining and numerous fold marks.
Jacques du Four de la Crespelière (1625-1680), burlesque and licentious poet displaying in his light verses the last fires of the Baroque, the author belongs to this specifically French 17th-century genre of which Scarron is one of the most illustrious representatives. This is poetry that goes against the grain, through mockery, of mannered and emphatic baroque poetry. His collection of Divertissemens d'amour, as well as his collection of translations of Greek poets (Sappho, Anacreon, Theocritus...), and Les récréations poétiques, amoureuses et galantes, are found in all the great libraries and literary anthologies of the 18th century. The collector of literary curiosities will eagerly seek out the works of this author, notably his Commentaires sur l'école de Salerne, divine mockeries of medicine.
Contemporary white vellum binding. Smooth spine. Some surface wear and staining.
Binding partially detached. Some dampstaining and numerous fold marks.
Jacques du Four de la Crespelière (1625-1680), burlesque and licentious poet displaying in his light verses the last fires of the Baroque, the author belongs to this specifically French 17th-century genre of which Scarron is one of the most illustrious representatives. This is poetry that goes against the grain, through mockery, of mannered and emphatic baroque poetry. His collection of Divertissemens d'amour, as well as his collection of translations of Greek poets (Sappho, Anacreon, Theocritus...), and Les récréations poétiques, amoureuses et galantes, are found in all the great libraries and literary anthologies of the 18th century. The collector of literary curiosities will eagerly seek out the works of this author, notably his Commentaires sur l'école de Salerne, divine mockeries of medicine.
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