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
Ref:3683
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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German poet, one of the forerunners of the golden age of German literature that was ushered in by Lessing
Size 9 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, often known simply as Boileau, was a French poet and critic. He did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, in the same way that Blaise Pascal did to reform the prose. He was greatly influenced by Horace.
Size 8.5 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1914
Austrian writer and poet during the Age of Enlightenment.
Size 9 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
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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.
Artist: De la Tour
Date:
Size 19 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
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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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One of the most prominent representatives of ‘popular philosophy’ in the German Enlightenment
Size 9 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
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