First editions. Jacqueline D'Escoman, demoiselle d'honneur to Marie de' Medici at the court of Henri IV, had accused Henriette d'Entragues, the marquise de Verneuil, and Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, the duc d'Épernon, of conspiring to influence François Ravaillac to assassinate the king. Ravaillac, a gullible, lapsed Jesuit.....
Paris: Jean Bienné, 1574.
The only edition of an epic on the Passion in vers héroïque, by Michel Foucqué, vicar of Saint-Martin de Tours. Foucqué was clearly inspired by the great epics of the Matter of France, though with textual modernizations for a post-Ronsard readership. Foucqué's knowledge of New Testament.....
Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, c1551.
The remarkable case of young Margaretha Weiss [1529-?], a girl from the village of Rode outside of Speyer, who, for three years following her tenth birthday, reportedly neither ate nor drank, yet seemed to grow more or less normally, play with her friends, talk, laugh, and.....