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[MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE] -- Anne, Margaret and Jane SEYMOUR. Le Tombeau de Marguerite de Valois Royne de Navarre. Paris: Michel Fezandat, Robert Granjon and Vincent Sartenas, 1551.
8° (169 x 105mm). Woodcut device on title, portrait of Marguerite on title verso, woodcut ornamental initials. 19th-century brown morocco with central diamond-shaped onlay of blue morocco stamped with 3 fleur-de-lis, gilt panelled with crowns and initials "M", gilt turn-ins, g.e., by Chambolle-Duru.
FIRST EDITION of this compilation emanating from La Pléiade. The Seymour sisters, daughters of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, composed these Latin distichs to honour the memory of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre, and their Latin verses were first published in 1550. Their verses were then taken up by Nicolas Denizot, comte d'Alsinois, who had been their tutor in London, and several of the poets of La Pléiade, who published them with translations into Greek by Dorat, Italian by Pierre de Mesmes, and French by du Bellay, Antoine Baïf and others. Ronsard contributed in addition an ode to the Seymour sisters and a Hymne Triumphal. Tchemerzine VII, 388; I, 118, 236; Brunet V, 879.
8° (169 x 105mm). Woodcut device on title, portrait of Marguerite on title verso, woodcut ornamental initials. 19th-century brown morocco with central diamond-shaped onlay of blue morocco stamped with 3 fleur-de-lis, gilt panelled with crowns and initials "M", gilt turn-ins, g.e., by Chambolle-Duru.
FIRST EDITION of this compilation emanating from La Pléiade. The Seymour sisters, daughters of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, composed these Latin distichs to honour the memory of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre, and their Latin verses were first published in 1550. Their verses were then taken up by Nicolas Denizot, comte d'Alsinois, who had been their tutor in London, and several of the poets of La Pléiade, who published them with translations into Greek by Dorat, Italian by Pierre de Mesmes, and French by du Bellay, Antoine Baïf and others. Ronsard contributed in addition an ode to the Seymour sisters and a Hymne Triumphal. Tchemerzine VII, 388; I, 118, 236; Brunet V, 879.