BELLEAU (Rémy).

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BELLEAU (Rémy).
Ɵ Les Œuvres poétiques. Paris, Mamert Patisson, 1578. 2 volumes in one in-12, red morocco, double cold fillet, spine decorated with cold fillets, interior lace, edges gilt on marbling (Chambolle-Duru). First collective, posthumous edition of the works of Rémy Belleau (1528-1577), the best poet of the Pléiade group after Ronsard and Du Bellay. It contains a total of 337 poems plus a play. Beautifully printed in Roman type for the prose, and in italics for the verse. The first volume opens with the Amours et nouveaux eschanges des pierres précieuses, a lapidary considered as the poet's masterpiece, where each poem is dedicated to a fine or precious stone: Belleau had done a lot of research in all the ancient and modern literature to deliver a kind of gemmiferous epic: run through by an almost telluric energy, this work of a poet who became a mineralogist (or a jeweller) is among the most fundamental ones of scientific poetry (Ducimetière). One also finds there the two days of La Bergerie, famous poem which marks the birth of the pastoral genre in France and in which Belleau endeavours to describe in a meticulous and tasty way various tables of nature. The major part of the second volume is occupied by the translation of the rural poems of Anacreon Téien, which inspired so much the poets of the Pléiade, and by the comedy La Reconnue which stages the incredible adventures of a young nun from Poitou who converted to the Reformation and was taken as war booty by a catholic captain: this comedy in five acts, the only play of the author, has probably never been performed and appears here for the first time. In volume II, 2 pieces by Ronsard : Élégie à Jules Gassot secrétaire du roi, and a poem in the Tombeau de Rémy Belleau (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1, n°92). A very nice copy, with good margins. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, III, n°76. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., n°42. - Renouard, p. 180. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°48.
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