EDIT16, CNCE 28440 ; BM, Italien, 621 ; Graesse, VI, 356 ; F. Le Bars, \u00ab Les Reliures de Henri III : essai de typologie \u00bb, dans l’ouvrage collectif Henri III m\u00e9c\u00e8ne des arts, des sciences et des lettres (Presses de l’Universit\u00e9 Paris-Sorbonne, 2006).<\/i><\/p>\n
The first complete Italian edition. It contains, for the first time, the author\u2019s biography, written in Latin by Xicone Polentone and translated into Florentine by Giovanni di Tante. A magnificent bound copy commissioned for the King of France, Henry III.<\/p>\n
Seneca\u2019s Benefizii<\/i>, or On Favours<\/i>, is a treatise divided into seven books in which the Roman philosopher offers a Stoic analysis of the ethical concepts of gratitude, ingratitude and favour, and sets out numerous suggestions on how to bestow, receive and repay favours.<\/p>\n
Henri III’s copy <\/span><\/p>\n King of France from 1574 to 1589, Henry III was a cultured prince and bibliophile, carrying on the Valois tradition of book collecting. He was the recipient of numerous works dedicated or presented to him, bearing his coat of arms or emblems, often in richly bound editions. He was also responsible for the first commissions for book bindings produced for the Order of the Holy Spirit, which he founded in December 1578.<\/p>\n This copy features a charming hazelnut-coloured morocco leather binding, almost certainly produced by the workshop of Nicolas Eve, the King\u2019s bookbinder from 1578 to 1579 (see Fabienne Le Bars, reliures.bnf, for an example of an orange morocco leather binding with fleurs-de-lis). Nicolas Eve succeeded Claude de Picques and became the fourth holder of the office of \u2018royal bookbinder\u2019. He worked primarily for Henry III.<\/p>\n “Henri III aimait beaucoup les livres, comme tous les Valois, et fit travailler pour lui Nicolas et Clovis Eve” (OHR).<\/p>\n At the court of Henry III, Seneca was read : “Mais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment en Pologne, Henri avait resserr\u00e9 son amiti\u00e9 avec Guy Faur de Pibrac, son chancelier l\u00e0-bas, qui allait, philologue lui-m\u00eame, l’initier \u00e0 la philosophie du moraliste latin [S\u00e9n\u00e8que]. … Depuis l’av\u00e8nement d’Henri, Monsieur de Pibrac \u00e9tait devenu l’un des grands s\u00e9n\u00e9cisants du royaume et il para\u00eet que la perte de son exemplaire personnel de S\u00e9n\u00e8que, annot\u00e9 patiemment de sa main, fut grande et irr\u00e9parable. […] En 1583, le seigneur Pressac offre \u00e0 Henri du S\u00e9n\u00e8que \u00e0 son tour, et, lui aussi, en fran\u00e7ais.” (Se\u0301ne\u0300que, lecture royale sous le dernier Valois Franc\u0327ois Pre\u0301chac. In: Bulletin de l\u2019Association Guillaume Bude\u0301 : Lettres d\u2019humanite\u0301, n\u00b09, mars 1950, pages 185-205).<\/span><\/p>\n Henri III, King of France (1551-1589), was the recipient of many presentation copies, often richly decorated with his coat of arms or emblems. He also commissioned the first bindings for the Order of the Holy Spirit, of which he was the founder, in December 1578. He also had a personal library, for which he favoured bindings with fleur-de-lys and foliate spandrels, in addition to simple bindings. <\/p>\n Henri III (1551-1589), son of Henri II and Catherine de M\u00e9dicis, was elected King of Poland in 1573 and crowned King of France in 1573. The last king of the Valois dynasty, he was assassinated in 1589.<\/p>\n Small stains on the binding, oxidised silver decoration.<\/p>\n Other provenance: Nicolas R\u00e9my Frizon de Blamont, President of the Parliament (ex-libris) \u2013 A. Breton (old signature on the flyleaf and initials on the title page).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 12mo (153 x 95 mm) 16 unn.l, 304 pp. Contemporary light brown morocco, triple silver fillet framing covers, central coat of arms of Henri III (OHR, 2491), flat spine, compartments decorated with a fleur-de-lis, silver edges, in a modern blue cloth slipcase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":84762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[530],"product_tag":[1270,1267],"class_list":{"0":"post-84771","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-binding","7":"product_tag-armoured","8":"product_tag-binding","9":"pa_auteur-seneca-lucius-annaeus-2","10":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Lucius Annaeus SENECA","chapeau":"Henry III's copy","adresse_bibliographique":"Florence, Giunta, 1574","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":"oui"},"yoast_head":"\n