Pierre De Ronsard - Ronsard lyrique et amoureux - 1922

Numered edition 304 on Arches vellum, printed by Protat Frères in Mâcon and illustrated with pretty friezes, engravings or drop caps -

This work gathers a representative selection of poems in which Ronsard celebrates, with exceptional richness of expression, the themes of love, beauty, time, nature, youth, passion, and human destiny, thus offering an overview of his lyrical inspiration -

The texts chosen mainly come from the Amours, the Sonnets to Hélène, the Odes, and other collections that secured the poet’s fame, allowing the reader to follow the evolution of his art from the ardent loves of his youth to the deeper meditations of his maturity -

Love appears in multiple forms, sometimes as a source of exhilaration and happiness, sometimes as a painful passion marked by absence, jealousy, refusals, disillusionments, and an awareness of the fragility of feelings -

The figures of Cassandre Salviati, Marie Dupin, and Hélène de Surgères, Ronsard’s principal muses, inspire poems where the woman is idealized according to the Petrarchan models, while retaining a deeply human, sensitive, and living presence -

Pierre de Ronsard - Ronsard, Lyric and Amorous - 1922 - À la Sirène -
307 pages

Very good condition of the binding, work in its original half-chbradden parchment, marbled boards, slight signs of wear, gilded top edges, smooth spine with the author’s name in black and the title in red -

Very good interior condition, rare foxing, beautiful engraving on the title, pretty headbands, drop caps, decorative initials, illustrated borders, a fine numbered copy 304 on Arches vellum, printed by Protat Frères in Mâcon, fresh interior -

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