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RONSARD (Pierre de).

Élégies, mascarades et bergerie. Paris, Gabriel Buon, 1565. In-4, brown morocco, covers framed with gilt fillet and decorated with a large mosaic of interlacing in fawn morocco, spine decorated with a gilt numeral repeated in caissons drawn by fawn morocco scrolls, fawn morocco lining set with a gilt fillet, chocolate moire endpapers, gilt head, case (G. Plumelle). Second edition, published the same year as the original: a first state copy. One of two known copies according to J. P. Barbier-Mueller and N. Ducimetière, along with the one in the Munich library. A collection of occasional pieces composed at the instigation of Catherine de Médicis, containing poems addressed to Queen Elizabeth of England and members of her government, as well as to French sovereigns, princes and aristocrats, including Catherine de Médicis, Charles IX, Louis de Condé, etc. Also included is a Bergerie dedicated to Catherine de Médicis, Charles IX and Louis de Condé. There is also a Bergerie dedicated to Marie Stuart, Queen of Scots, whose actors were to be the children of the royal family along with Henri de Navarre and Henri de Guise, but which was never performed, as well as poems composed for court festivities, collected under the title Mascarades, combatz et cartelz, faitz à Paris et au carnaval de Fontainebleau. With this collection, Ronsard became the official ambassador of Catherine de Médicis: on April 11, 1564, France and England had signed the Treaty of Troyes, which put an end to the long-standing continental claims of the British crown. The time was ripe for reconciliation, and Catherine de Médicis, anxious to maintain cordial relations with Queen Elizabeth, commissioned these verses from Ronsard, her poetic spokesman (N. Ducimetière). Particularly noteworthy is the elegy addressed to Mylord Robert Du-Dlé, Comte de L'Encestre (Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, minister to the Queen of England), whose qualities Ronsard praises, including his courage in battle, his aptitude for music and dance. While his well-known taste for bibliophilia - the bindings made for him bear his emblem, a bear chained to a tree trunk - is not mentioned, the poet does shed light on this dignitary's passion for hunting (12 lines): Nul mieux que toy ne suit par les bocages, / Les Cerfs rameux, ou les Sangliers sauvages... A washed copy, covered in an attractive binding with mosaic decoration in the Renaissance style. It comes from the Maggs collection and was formerly bound by Marmin (cf. Seymour de Ricci, Catalogue of unique early editions of Ronsard, 1927, n°55, pp. 126-127). Upper corner of several leaves restored. Without the last leaf, blank. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1, n°45. - Ronsard : la trompette et la lyre, n°242. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., n°13 (this copy). - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°738.

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