RONSARD.

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RONSARD.
- Collection of songs and poems celebrating the victories of the Duke of Anjou over the Huguenots. S.l.n.d. [late 16th century]. Booklet in-8 of 35 pages, soft vellum at the time. A most rare work, containing 12 violent pieces in anti-Huguenot verse, including one by Ronsard. The tone is set by the Complaincte et deploration de l'heresie, on the death of the Prince de Condé, his allies & accomplices, which opens the volume: its anonymous author denounces heresy without concession the Heresy, imploring Satan in particular so that the cardinal of Châtillon (Odet de Coligny), Luther, Calvin, De Bèze and the defrocked monks, together this mess and dognaille living in oysivity, to enter the deep abyss (p. 4). Ronsard's poem, Chant triomphal pour joüer sur la lyre: Sur l'insigne victoire qu'il a pleuu à Dieu donner à Monseigneur frere du Roy (pp. 25-29), was composed the day after the resounding battle of Jarnac (March 13, 1569), where Coligny was defeated and Louis de Condé was assassinated: It is a hymn of victory and thanksgiving with a leaping rhythm, in which the poet exults, moved by feelings of patriotism and loyalty [...]....]: for he wholeheartedly hates the Huguenots, who have so often disturbed his peace of mind and even threatened his life (Paul Laumonier, Ronsard poète lyrique, p. 233). This piece had already appeared in 1569 in the Sixiesme livre des poèmes ronsardiens (Paris, Jean Dallier, f. 18). Among the other pieces, let us quote a Spiritual Ode against the false Evangelicals & Protestans, the Tiobnob, the antitode or counterpoison, a Dizain to Martin Luther by Artus Désiré, or a New Song of the Miracle which occurred in Paris, it is to sçavoir une Espine which is floured in the Cymetiere des sainctz Innocens, the day after the occision of the Admiral & his allies. Only one copy seems to be listed in the public funds (BnF). Curious handwritten 17th century mention on a guard, indicating that the
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