Philippe DESPORTES
Les oeuvres
De l'imprimerie de Raphael Du Petit Val|à Rouen 1611|8 x 14.50 cm|relié
New edition ornamented with an engraved title-frontispiece drawn by Léonard Gautier.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Richly ornamented spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Top headcap torn with lacks to joints. Joints cracked at foot. 2 wormholes at foot, and 2 others along the upper joint at foot. Corners slightly bumped. Yellowed paper.
Desportes' poetry was durably influenced and shaped by Italian literature. The author indeed returns to France after a journey to Italy where he fell under the influence of Petrarch - his first poems were moreover criticized as neo-Petrarchism. His first book appeared in a collective volume and gathered his poems imitated from Ariosto. His clear, frank, mannerist and refined poetry, a court poetry, eclipsed that of Ronsard at the court of Henri III. It was in turn criticized and replaced by that of Malherbe. Desportes' literature nonetheless forms an important aspect of Renaissance poetry. This edition contains the loves of Diane, the loves of Hyppolite, Cleonice, the elegies, the poems imitated from Ariosto, the new loves, the epitaphs and various pieces.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Richly ornamented spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Top headcap torn with lacks to joints. Joints cracked at foot. 2 wormholes at foot, and 2 others along the upper joint at foot. Corners slightly bumped. Yellowed paper.
Desportes' poetry was durably influenced and shaped by Italian literature. The author indeed returns to France after a journey to Italy where he fell under the influence of Petrarch - his first poems were moreover criticized as neo-Petrarchism. His first book appeared in a collective volume and gathered his poems imitated from Ariosto. His clear, frank, mannerist and refined poetry, a court poetry, eclipsed that of Ronsard at the court of Henri III. It was in turn criticized and replaced by that of Malherbe. Desportes' literature nonetheless forms an important aspect of Renaissance poetry. This edition contains the loves of Diane, the loves of Hyppolite, Cleonice, the elegies, the poems imitated from Ariosto, the new loves, the epitaphs and various pieces.
€700