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[Pibrac, Guy du Faur, seigneur de]
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Description
- Ornatissimi cuiusdam viri, de rebus gallicis, ad Stanislaum Elvidium [i.e. Joannes Camerarius], epistola. Paris: Frédéric Morel, 1573
4to (196 x 141mm.), printer's device on title-page, modern boards, an early manuscript note at foot of title-page concerning authorial attribution, inscription on title-page cropped
Provenance
J. de Bourdigalle, contemporary signature on title-page
Catalogue Note
first edition, rare. Pibrac (1529-1584), eminent jurist and statesman, represented Charles IX at the Council of Trent in 1562. This justification of the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, written at the request of Catherine de Medici, and addressed to Joachim Camerarius, friend of Melanchthon and Erasmus, caused outrage across Protestant Europe. A second edition, with Camerarius's response added, appeared later in the same year.