Martin DESPOIS, Poet from Bordeaux] Saint... - Lot 25 - Vermot et Associés

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Martin DESPOIS, Poet from Bordeaux] Saint... - Lot 25 - Vermot et Associés
Martin DESPOIS, Poet from Bordeaux] Saint PAULIN de NOLE : Divi Paulini Episcopi Nolani quotquot extant opera omnia : partim soluta oratione, paritm carmine conscripta, D.H. Gravii ... studio ... ex vetustisa. exemplaribus restituta, ac argumentis illustrata. Cologne, Cholinum, 1560. In-12 19th century green half-chagrin with corners, spine with ornamented nerves. XII - 705 pp. (pale spotting). Second edition. The original edition was printed in 1516. Absent from the French National Library, from the French catalogues. A copy held in the Edinburgh library. We have found nothing on this edition in the German catalogues. Nothing in the Harvard Hollis catalogue. In general, few sixteenth century editions in the catalogues. St. Paulinus (354-431) was born in Bordeaux in 354, of one of the oldest and most famous enatorial families of Rome, which had immense possessions in Italy, Aquitaine and Spain. Ausonius, the first orator and poet of his time, was his teacher, and under his guidance Paulinus himself became a very remarkable orator and writer. His talents, his wealth, his virtues raised him to the highest dignities of the empire, and he was even honoured with the consulship in the year 378" Abbé L. Jaud, Vie des Saints pour tous les jours de l'année, Tours, Mame, 1950. We have preserved 35 poems by him, very elegant, most of them in dactylic hexameters. Paulinus of Nole is also the author of a set of 49 letters of very ornate form, testifying to his piety and his personal sensitivity, as well as to the literary taste of the time. This edition does not contain the entire work but a selected sample of letters and poems. A precious copy having belonged to the Bordeaux poet Martin Despois, with his handwritten signature at the bottom of the title page (which has been crossed out but remains identifiable) and some marginal handwritten notes on pages 38 and 135; The copy then belonged to the scholar Reinhold Dezeimeris, who was the editor of Despois' poems, who authenticates this provenance in a handwritten note
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