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AUBIGNAC, François Hédelin d' - Zenobie.
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214
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AUBIGNAC, François Hédelin d' - Zenobie.
See original version (French)
Estimate €300
Voluntary lot
Description
AUBIGNAC, François Hédelin d' - Zenobie. A tragedy. In which the truth of history is preserved by observing the most rigorous rules of dramatic poetry. Paris, Augustin Courbé, 1647. In-4, (4) ff, 142 pp, paper a little yellowed, contemporary granulated brown calf, smooth spine decorated, title in full.
First edition, written in prose. It was written at the request of Cardinal de Richelieu. The author is best known for La Pratique du Théâtre (1657), to whose theories the play conforms. It depicts the tragic fate of the heroic Queen of Palmyra (v. 266-272). Defeated by the Emperor Aurelian, despite his esteem, she ends up taking her own life. (Rel. following the same:) Le Martyre de Ste Catherine. Tragedie. Sur la copie imprimée à Caen, chez Eleazar Mangeant (Paris), 1650. 1 f., 122 pp. yellowed paper, russ. Second edition (first Caen, 1649).
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