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LA RUE (Charles de). Carminum libri quatuor.... - Lot 5 - Hôtel des ventes d'Évreux
LA RUE (Charles de). Carminum libri quatuor. Paris, Simon Bernard, 1680.
In-4, brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt title, gilt arms in center of boards (period binding). Covers and corners slightly worn;
First edition. The illustration consists of 3 header vignettes, a cul-de-lampe, and 27 emblem vignettes. The portrait and frontispiece are missing.
The first book of these poems, which assured their author a distinguished place on the modern Latin Parnassus, contains two Latin tragedies: Lysimachus and Cyrus. The second book contains Panérgyriques, with P. CORNEILLE's translation of two of them into French verse (cf. Picot, 219). Heroic symbols make up the third book, and mélanges the fourth.
Père de la Rue's Tragédies, as well as his first poetic essays, were honored by P. Corneille.
In 1667, having written a Latin poem on the Conquests of Louis XIV, Pierre Corneille translated into verse the one in which he describes the King's victories in Flanders, and the one in which he describes the Prince's victories in Holland.
With the coat of arms of Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchesse de Montpensier, known as La Grande Mademoiselle.
Ex-libris Bibliothèque du château des Guerrots. Bookplate J.M.
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