![BÈZE, Théodore de -- [TRENTO, Giovan-Battista (b.c.1520)] 'Frangidelphe Escorche-Messes'. Histoire de la Mappe-Monde Papistique. 'Luce Nouvelle' [Geneva]: 'Brifaud Chasse-diables' [François Perrin], 1567. 4° (242 x 147mm). Three engraved portrait frontispieces of Théodore de Bèze tipped- and bound-in, one of these folding, one by E. Desrochers, woodcut head-pieces. (Light scattered spotting on title and in margins.) Red morocco by Derôme le jeune with his ticket on verso of blank, covers with French fillet, central lozenge ornament blocked in blind, possibly in the early 19th-century, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (light rubbing, upper fore-corner of upper cover bumped) [with, loosely inserted:]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/CKS/2005_CKS_07046_0127_000(101559).jpg?w=1)
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BÈZE, Théodore de -- [TRENTO, Giovan-Battista (b.c.1520)] 'Frangidelphe Escorche-Messes'. Histoire de la Mappe-Monde Papistique. 'Luce Nouvelle' [Geneva]: 'Brifaud Chasse-diables' [François Perrin], 1567. 4° (242 x 147mm). Three engraved portrait frontispieces of Théodore de Bèze tipped- and bound-in, one of these folding, one by E. Desrochers, woodcut head-pieces. (Light scattered spotting on title and in margins.) Red morocco by Derôme le jeune with his ticket on verso of blank, covers with French fillet, central lozenge ornament blocked in blind, possibly in the early 19th-century, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (light rubbing, upper fore-corner of upper cover bumped) [with, loosely inserted:]
BÈZE, Théodore de (1519-1605). Autograph document answering questions in another hand, n.p., n.d. [c.1561], 2 pages, 4°, folded once.
Provenance: Méon (no. 363, bought for 40 francs in 1803, manuscript leaf with transcription of Bèze document tipped to front pastedown) -- Comte de Soultrait (red morocco book label) -- Librairie Durel (two descriptions tipped-in dated 1880 and 1881).
RARE SECOND EDITION, WITH A LEAF OF MANUSCRIPT BY THéODORE DE BèZE LAID-IN. Documents in Bèze's hand are rare. The Mappe-Monde Papistique is a violent satire against the Papal court, and a telling document of conflicting beliefs during the Reformation. It was long thought to be the work of Théodore de Bèze but finally attributed to Giovan-Battista Trento (cf. Wahrman). Born in Padua, Trento embraced Calvinist and humanist ideas and quickly gained a reputation as a 'rabid' Hugenot. In 1555 he sought refuge in Switzerland and, in the 1560s, when the situation became critical for Italian Hugenots, Trento turned to his Histoire. Trento composed a satire loaded with indignation and imagination fuelled by resentment, exhausted only by the infinitely detailed enumeration of Papal abuse. The Histoire describes in minute detail a map published independently, and comprising 16 folio plates - probably the largest satirical illustration of the 16th century. This map is known in very few examples: at Sonderhausen, the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence, the British Library, and Geneva, the last two imperfect. Taking its inspiration from Francesco Negri's Liber Arbitrio, Trento criticizes the ecclesiastical landscape and Papal reign, comparing it to the Spanish and Portugese empires, and denoting its regions, 'Province des clecrs', 'Province des nonnains', 'Cité jésuitaine', etc., with the aim of giving form to the rotten edifice of the Roman Church. The first edition, published the previous year, is also rare.
The manuscript leaf (inserted in the early 19th-century) shows Théodore de Bèze responding to questions put to him in another hand. These may have been asked near the time of the Colloque de Poissy (1561) by a representative of the churches of the principality of Montbéliard, then belonging to the dukes of Wurttemberg. The wars of religion had not yet begun; and at Poissy a modus vivendi was still being sought between Catholics and Protestants. The present manuscript may document a last effort at Christian peace. Bèze replies to a question concerning interpretation of ordonnance: 'tenez vous aux modifications sur ce faicte dont le feu duc Christophe [Wurttemberg] mêsme s'est contenté de peur de n'estre contraincts de rien innover. Vous avez esté toujours en bon repos, et demeurer fermes en ceste conclusion.' The Bibliothèque de Geneve holds a manuscript where Bèze's hand can be seen alternating with another in a series of questions and answers. Brunet II 1380 ('les examplaires en sont rare et recherchés'); Quérard II 90; Wahrman 'From Imaginary Drama to Dramatized Imagery: The Mappe-Monde Nouvelle Papistique, 1566-67' in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 54, pp. 186-205.
BÈZE, Théodore de (1519-1605). Autograph document answering questions in another hand, n.p., n.d. [c.1561], 2 pages, 4°, folded once.
Provenance: Méon (no. 363, bought for 40 francs in 1803, manuscript leaf with transcription of Bèze document tipped to front pastedown) -- Comte de Soultrait (red morocco book label) -- Librairie Durel (two descriptions tipped-in dated 1880 and 1881).
RARE SECOND EDITION, WITH A LEAF OF MANUSCRIPT BY THéODORE DE BèZE LAID-IN. Documents in Bèze's hand are rare. The Mappe-Monde Papistique is a violent satire against the Papal court, and a telling document of conflicting beliefs during the Reformation. It was long thought to be the work of Théodore de Bèze but finally attributed to Giovan-Battista Trento (cf. Wahrman). Born in Padua, Trento embraced Calvinist and humanist ideas and quickly gained a reputation as a 'rabid' Hugenot. In 1555 he sought refuge in Switzerland and, in the 1560s, when the situation became critical for Italian Hugenots, Trento turned to his Histoire. Trento composed a satire loaded with indignation and imagination fuelled by resentment, exhausted only by the infinitely detailed enumeration of Papal abuse. The Histoire describes in minute detail a map published independently, and comprising 16 folio plates - probably the largest satirical illustration of the 16th century. This map is known in very few examples: at Sonderhausen, the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence, the British Library, and Geneva, the last two imperfect. Taking its inspiration from Francesco Negri's Liber Arbitrio, Trento criticizes the ecclesiastical landscape and Papal reign, comparing it to the Spanish and Portugese empires, and denoting its regions, 'Province des clecrs', 'Province des nonnains', 'Cité jésuitaine', etc., with the aim of giving form to the rotten edifice of the Roman Church. The first edition, published the previous year, is also rare.
The manuscript leaf (inserted in the early 19th-century) shows Théodore de Bèze responding to questions put to him in another hand. These may have been asked near the time of the Colloque de Poissy (1561) by a representative of the churches of the principality of Montbéliard, then belonging to the dukes of Wurttemberg. The wars of religion had not yet begun; and at Poissy a modus vivendi was still being sought between Catholics and Protestants. The present manuscript may document a last effort at Christian peace. Bèze replies to a question concerning interpretation of ordonnance: 'tenez vous aux modifications sur ce faicte dont le feu duc Christophe [Wurttemberg] mêsme s'est contenté de peur de n'estre contraincts de rien innover. Vous avez esté toujours en bon repos, et demeurer fermes en ceste conclusion.' The Bibliothèque de Geneve holds a manuscript where Bèze's hand can be seen alternating with another in a series of questions and answers. Brunet II 1380 ('les examplaires en sont rare et recherchés'); Quérard II 90; Wahrman 'From Imaginary Drama to Dramatized Imagery: The Mappe-Monde Nouvelle Papistique, 1566-67' in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 54, pp. 186-205.
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