Commentariorum de statu religionis et reipublicae in regno Galliae.
1580
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Details
Title
Commentariorum de statu religionis et reipublicae in regno Galliae.
Uniform title
Commentaires de l'estat de la religion. English. Abridgement.
Created/published
Imprinted in Geneva : Leiden and Bremen: E. Vignon & Bernhardus Petrus, 1580.
Description
208 p.
Associated name
Serres, Jean de, 1540?-1598, author.
Note
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
Bd.w. FAST ACC 270964 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The Professor Emile V. Telle Acquisitions Fund. From dealer's description: "[HENRI IV]. [ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE]. [EUROPEAN AMERICANA]. [CAROLINE LITERATURE]. ORBIS CHRISTIANI STATUS (1590) / [Jean de Serres] V. Partis Commentariorum de statu religionis et reipublicae in regno Galliae (1580) / [Jacobus Francus, i.e. Conrad Memmius] Jehova Vindex (1590). Geneva, Leiden and Bremen: E. Vignon & Bernhardus Petrus, 1580. Dates: 1580-1590. Together 3 works in one volume. 8vo. (ORBIS): 174 pp., 2 blank ff. (COMMENTARIORUM): 8 ff., 208 pp. (JEHOVA VIDEX): 2 parts in one volume. 12 ff., 34 ff. Contemporary half pigskin blind-tooled, upper compartment with the monogram of the first owner "M.M.H." in the lower the date "1590," boards painted black, sprinkled edges (front endleaf loosening). In very good antiquarian condition. Preserved in a fitted cloth case. Very good. Hardcover. (#369). Jean de Serres' five-part COMMENTARIORUM DE STATU RELIGIO ET REIPUBLICAE IN REGNO GALLIAE was the primary source for plot materials for William Heminges' "The Fatal Contract: A French Tragedy," written 1638/9, first acted in 1640, and first printed in 1653. This extraordinary Caroline play has been regarded as one of the most extreme of the revenge tragedies or "tragedies of blood" -- more graphic even than Titus Andronicus. Heminges almost certainly used the 1607 English translation entitled: "The General Inventory of the History of France" (SOURCE: Virginia Mason, Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800, pp. 121-2). The five parts of the commentaries were published separately, years apart, the first being compiled by Pierre de la Place. Ours is the First Edition of Part V, complete in itself, which relates signal events during the reign of Henri III from 1574-1576. Serres continued to work on the History until the end of his life, in 1596, at which time he had completed twelve books. Adams L-197. Moeckli, Geneve 99. * Ordered from Michael Laird Rare Books, D 9283, 2019-02-07, email quote.
Folger accession
270964