LA TOUR d'ALBENAS. L'Amie Rustique and other miscellaneous v - Lot 27

LA TOUR d'ALBENAS. L'Amie Rustique and other miscellaneous verses. A Lyon, de l'Imprimerie de Robert Granjon. Mil. Ve. Lviij (1558). 44 ff. non chiff. - L'Amie des Amies, imitation of Ariosto, divided into four books. Ibid. id. 1558, 88 ff. non chiff. Together 2 works in 1 vol. in-8, maroq. citron, dent. spine ornate, dent. intér. tr. dor. (Bauzonnet, 1838). Published in Lyon on Robert Granjon's presses, the two collections form a diptych: they were printed in "civility type" imitating handwriting, created by the Lyon printer. They both begin with a long amorous piece, and are followed by translations or imitations of Italian poets (Ariosto, Folengo). A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE from the libraries of R.-S. Turner, Marigues de Champ-Repus, Herpin, Marcel Bénard, Abel Lefranc and Baron Pichon. Baudrier, Bibliographie lyonnaise, II, pp. 57-59; Carter Vervliet, Civilité Types, no. 8; Balsamo, Les Traductions de l'italien en français au XVIe siècle, 2009, p. 93.