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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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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German lawyer, and translator born at Bramstedt in Holstein (then a part of Denmark). He was also a poet of the Sturm und Drang and early Romantic periods.
Size 12.5 x 17.5 cms
Price £28.00
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French poet known in his generation as a “prince of poets”. His works include Les Amours de Cassandre, Les Hymnes, Les Discours, La Franciade, and Sonnets pour Hélène. Ronsard was born at Manoir de la Possonnière in the village of Couture-sur-Loir, Vendômois.
Artist: Delpech
Size 10 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
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German writer of prose satires and publicist of the Enlightenment. He was born at Wachau near Leipzig, and he died at Dresden. In 1741 he made his debut as satirist in Schwabe’s Belustigungen des Verstandes und Witzes, and was subsequently a contributor to the Bremer Beitrage.
Size 12 x 19 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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Elizabeth Jane Weston was an English-Czech poet, known for her Neo-Latin poetry. She had the unusual distinction for a woman of the time of having her poetry published.
Size 9.5 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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