Year/Century: 16th century
Language: Latin
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Binding: Leather
Description: SATYRE MENIPPEE DE LA TENUE DES ESTATS DE PARIS ET DE LA VERTU DU CATHOLICON D'ESPAGNE. NEWLY AUGMENTED EDITION AT THE END OF HISTORICAL RECORDS [SIC] & OBSERVATIONS, DISCOVERING MORE AND MORE SECRETS OF THE LIGUE. Composed by Jean Passerat, Jacques Gillot, Pierre Pithou, Florent Chrestien, Pierre Leroy, and Nicolas Rapin. Rarely available enhanced version of the political and humorous piece on the conflicts after Henry's conversion to Catholicism. Published in 1595 Measurements: 1/196-[2 bl.]-197/244 [= 254] pp. Later, De Samblanx created a blind-tooled leather binding with a Renaissance-style frame and fillets, an elaborate spine with raised bands, and red-sprayed edges. The title page's bottom corner has been fixed. The spine's upper edge is fixed. A. Berthel, bookstore (label), Prov. Gaëtan Quercus (hand-colored and gold-heightened mod. armorial bookplate). 244 pages French text During the French Wars of Religion, the Satire Ménippée, also known as La Satyre Ménippée de la vertu du Catholicon d'Espagne, was a political and satirical work written in prose and verse that supported the idea of an independent but Catholic France while savagely mocking the Catholic League and Spanish pretensions. The project was a team effort involving academics, attorneys, clerics, and bureaucrats. It first surfaced at the same moment as Henry IV of France rose to power and the League was defeated. The term "menippean satire" refers to a type of carnivalesque literature that was popular in classical Greece and Rome and was composed of a free-form combination of prose, poetry, and dialogue. The Satyre Ménippée was dubbed "one of the greatest political satires of world literature" by Mikhail Bakhtin.
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