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RICHER, Louis - L'Ovide Bouffon, ou les métamorphoses burles…
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322
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RICHER, Louis - L'Ovide Bouffon, ou les métamorphoses burles…
See original version (French)
Estimate €400
Voluntary lot
Description
RICHER, Louis - L'Ovide Bouffon, ou les métamorphoses burlesques. Paris, Toussainct Quinet, 1650-1652. 4 vols. in-4, (4) ff. 104 pp. (the last one misc. 96); (4) ff. with one blank, 152 pp.; (4) ff. with one blank, 116 pp. (the last one misc. 96); (4) ff. with one blank, 134 pp, (1) f., 3 fig. in pagination, two of them slightly trimmed, mending to title of vol. I (provenance removed), limp vellum, vol. I in contemporary binding, vols. II,III and IV with shorter margins.
LACHÈVRE II, 437. WEIGERT 414-416. Three figures by Chauveau. In the same year (1650) the burlesque genre was very fashionable and d'Assoucy's Ovide en belle humeur appeared. Richer was a friend of Scarron, who included a madrigal with his work. He was convinced that there was no work by Ovid more suited to burlesque than the Metamorphoses; he saw nothing serious in them other than in the spirit of our Mythologists who, he said, put all their study into finding a moral meaning in the poet's most fanciful thoughts: he believed that Ovid himself would have used the burlesque style, if this style had the same credit in Rome of his time as it has now in Paris (Goujet VI, 89).
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