La Satyre Ménippée;
ou, La vertu du catholicon, selon l'édition princeps de 1594; avec introduction et éclaircissements par m. Charles Read.

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Related Names

Read, Charles, 1819-1898.
Dupuy, Pierre, 1582-1651.
Durant, Gilles, sieur de La Bergerie, ca. 1550-1615.
Passerat, Jean, 1534-1602.
Pithou, Pierre, 1539-1596.
Rapin, Nicolas, ca. 1540-1608.
Chrestien, Florent, 1541-1596.
Gillot, Jacques, 1550?-1619.
Le Roy, Jean, d. 1627.

Language(s)

French

Published

Paris, Librairie des bibliophiles, E. Flammarion, successeur [1924?]

Subjects

Sainte Ligue (1576-1593)
France > France / History > France / History / Henry IV, 1589-1610.

Note

Supposed to have been inspired by Jean Le Roy. The prose pieces are by Jacques Gillot, Florent Chrestien, Nicolas Rapin and Pierre Pithou; the verse by Jean Passerat, Nicolas Rapin and Gilles Durant; the remarks and notes by Pierre Dupuy.
Some early editions were published under title: La vertu du catholicon d'Espagne.
First edition by Charles Read appeared in 1876.

Physical Description

xxiii, 322 p. 18 cm.

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