Vincent Voiture, French Mannerist and Baroque Précieuses poet and writer of prose, was the son of a rich wine merchant of Amiens. He was introduced by a schoolfellow, the count Claude d’Avaux, to Gaston, Duke of Orléans, and accompanied him to Brussels and Lorraine on diplomatic missions
Artist/Engraver Jacques Lubin
Size 12 x 7 cms
Price £12.00
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Moderata Fonte, directly translating to Modest Well, is a pseudonym of Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi (or Zorzi), also known as Modesto Pozzo (or Modesta, feminization of Modesto),(1555–1592) a Venetian writer and poet.[5] Besides the posthumously-published dialogues, Giustizia delle donne and Il merito delle donne (gathered in The Worth of Women, 1600), for which she is best known, she wrote a romance and religious poetry. Details of her life are known from the biography by Giovanni Niccolò Doglioni (1548-1629), her uncle, included as a preface to the dialogue.
Artist/Engraver
Size 32 x 21 cms
Price £35.00
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Melchior Cardinal de Polignac was a French diplomat, Cardinal and neo-Latin poet. Second son of Armand XVI, marquis de Polignac and Marquis Chalancon, Governor of Puy; and Jacqueline de Beauvoi
Size 16 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
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English poet and Tory politician of the late Stuart period who served as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council. He was also known by his original title, Lord Mulgrave.
Artist/Engraver: Finden after Thurston 1822
Size 25 x 16 cms
Price £14.00
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His articles, speeches, letters and poems appeared in the Magyar Hirmondo (1782. 95. Speech at the inauguration of Count József Teleki, Archbishop of Ugocsa County), in Magyar Musa (1788. III. Letter: Pest, Szent András hava 20. ), in Orpheus (II. 1790. Bucsuzása from the county of Abauj. Oct. 14, 1784.); in the Magyar Museum (from the last book of Agathon I. Wieland, translated by Lőrincz of Bold. baron Orczy, from the law book of Empress Katharina of Russia, which was printed in Petersburg, Russia in 1776, and his letters to Kazinczy: Tarna-Eörs Nov. 5, 1785, Nov. 1786 l.); In the Uj Magyar Muzeum (1853. I. Letters to Ferenc Kazinczy, Oct. 5, 1785, Nov. 1, 1786).
Artist Ehrenreich Sándor Ádám (1784-1852) after Sdunder
Size 30 x 25 cm
Price £28.00
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Austrian writer and poet during the Age of Enlightenment.
Size 9 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
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Johann Nepomuk Cosmas Michael Denis, also: Sined the Bard, was an Austrian Catholic priest and Jesuit, who is best known as a poet, bibliographer, and lepidopterist.
Size 12.8 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon was a French poet and tragedian. He is sometimes known as Crébillon père or Crébillon le Tragique to distinguish him from his son Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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Also known as Ludwig Theobul or Ludwig Theoboul, was a German poet and Lutheran preacher.
Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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German critic and dramatic poet. Müllner was a nephew of Gottfried August Burger, and was born at Langendorf near Weissenfels.
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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