BOUCHET, Jean

by Jean Bouchet

£4,950 · Offered by Sokol Books

Rare and beautifully printed edition of the most successful work of the Rhetoriqueur poet Jean Bouchet, first published in 1530, a mystical romance in prose and verse on divine love, in which the 'amoureuse dame' represents the human soul. Bouchet, 1476-c.1550 was a prolific author of great intelligence and imagination. He acquired fame at the court of Louis XII and Anne of Brittany, had a successful career as a lawyer, was tutor to the Prince de Talmont and became centre of the literary circle in his native Poitiers. He was one of the few poets of his era to live off his writing, without patronage, and thus had great control over the printing of his own works. in this respect, despite his relative conservatism as a poet, Bouchet anticipates the more apparently personal and less overtly formalist poetics of the mid and late sixteenth century. Adrian Armstrong Script, Print, and Poetics in France, 1470-1550 . Among his friends was François Rabelais who addressed to Bouchet his first verses in French.This Parisian edition seems to have been shared by Jean Longis and Jean Mac é. Brunet mentions that ces triomphes sont un ouvrage mystique, en vers et en prose, o√π il s agit de l amour de Dieu: L amoureuse dame est notre √¢me. On le voit donc, il n y a l√† rien de bien érotique . However, he omits to state that much of the matter is of more human interest than may be at first supposed. There are chapters on matrimonial conduct, the bringing up of children, ( Comment mary et femme

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