Title: 1560 HISTORY of FRANCE by Philippe de Commines antique Reign of King Louis XI Description: COMMYNES, Philippe de Chronicle and History... containing the events that occurred during the Reign of King Louis XI... Paris: Iehan Ruelle; 1560. [16], 464 lvs., woodcut printer's mark on the title page (with the motto: in pace ubertas). Some marginal brown stains at few last leaves. Manuscript ex-libris on the title page. 18th-century full calf binding, spine with raised bands, richly gilt, inner dentelle, marbled endpapers. -Cf. Brunet II, 192; cf. Bibl. Belg. C 174. "This edition is the last reprint, without any changes, of the first edition of Commines' work, as published by Jean de Selve." Rare, not held by the BNF, only 3 copies in USTC- Size 3 by 4 3/4" Text in French Philippe de Commines (also Commynes or Comines; Latin: Philippus Cominaeus; 1447 – 1511) was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France. He has been called "the first truly modern writer" (Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve) and "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times" (Oxford Companion to English Literature). Neither a chronicler nor a historian in the usual sense of the word, his analyses of the contemporary political scene are what made him virtually unique in his own time.
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