Barbier, IV, 1037, Cioranescu, III, 54591; Jean Leclerc, “La biblioth\u00e8que humaniste du Virgile Goguenard”, Les Biblioth\u00e8ques, entre imaginaires et r\u00e9alit\u00e9s, Arras, Artois Presses Universit\u00e9, 2009.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition.<\/span><\/p>\n Literary transvestism originated in 1633 with Giovanbattista Lalli, who also pastiched ancient literature with L’Eneide travestita<\/i>. This comic version of the text was soon emulated by others, including Scarron, who published Virgile travesty en vers burlesques<\/i> in 1648. Scarron’s parody was republished in 1652, the date of our edition. Virgile goguenard<\/i> belongs fully to the burlesque vogue and was, moreover, conceived and printed at the height of the Fronde. The attribution of this work raises questions: “L’Extraict du Privilege du Roy” attributes the work to a certain “Claude Petit-Jehan Advocat en Parlement”, while the very long Epistre \u00e0 Henry de Savoye is signed L.D.L.<\/p>\n According to Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Lach\u00e8vre, in his Bibliographie des recueils collectifs de po\u00e9sies<\/i>, these initials refer to Laurent de Laffemas, the son of Isaac de Laffemas, a king’s adviser and civil lieutenant devoted to Richelieu. The attribution of the work is therefore more appropriate to a friend of Scarron and the Cardinal de Retz, a worldly abbot who composed mazarinades and who is also said to have published L’Enfer burlesque […] The false attribution of the privilege would perhaps be a decoy to fool the censors, especially as privileges were not to be ceded lightly to the authors of mazarinades during the Fronde”. (see Leclerc).<\/p>\n The engraved frontispiece is by Fran\u00e7ois Chauveau, who also illustrated works by Scarron and D’Assoucy. It presents a fictitious library in which many works can be identified, including the sources of the text. Scarron’s two travestissements, le Typhon<\/i> and le Virgile travesty<\/i>, are present alongside Villon and Marot. <\/p>\n Some occasional spotting. Marginal staining on pages 87 to 93, without affecting the text. <\/p>\n A fine copy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 4to (218 x 160 mm) 20 nn.ll., 186 pp., 1 nn.l. (privilege), 2 full page engravings. 18th century calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":81070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[544],"product_tag":[1244,1450],"class_list":{"0":"post-81077","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-literature","7":"product_tag-17th-century-literature","8":"product_tag-first-edition","9":"pa_auteur-petit-jehan-claude-2","10":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","12":"first","13":"outofstock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Claude PETIT-JEHAN","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Antoine de Sommaville, 1652","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n