TYARD, Pontus de (1521-1605)

Mantice, ou, discours de la verité de divination par astrologie . A lion, par Jan de Tournes et Guil. Gazeau. M. D. LVIII

Lyon: Jean de Tournes and Guillaume Gazeau, 1558.
4to: A--B4 a--l4 m6 (blank m6), 58 leaves, pp. [16] 97 [3]. Italic letter with Roman headings and shoulder notes. Title within a woodcut border and with printer's device and woodcut portrait of the author on verso; woodcut initials and headpieces. Leaf size and condition: 235 x 155mm. Lower margin of titlepage cut off and restored, slightly affecting the woodcut border; light soiling, browning and waterstaining and a few spots. Binding: Eighteenth-century vellum boards. Rodent damage to corners. Provenance and annotation: Inscription on endleaf '1735 Di Giaco: Franzo'. Walter Pagel (1896--1983), signature, undated, annotated 'to Bernard E. J Pagel 1964'; B. E. J. Pagel (1930--2007). References: Cartier 422.
First edition. A revised and augmented edition was printed at Paris in 1573, and this was augmented again for the version included in Les discours philosophiques (Paris, 1587); and finally the author's corrections were incorporated in the posthumous edition of that collection (Paris 1599).
§ A formal dispute on the truth or falsity of astrology. It ends by denying man's ability to read the stars and insists on his freedom from their influence. Pontus de Tyard, seigneur of Bissy in Burgundy, is also known as a French poet, a member of the Pleiade and one of the first to write sonnets in French. In his later years he gave up poetry and devoted himself up to mathematics and philosophy. Mantice, with other works, was reprinted in his Les discours philosophiques (1587). Literature: Kathleen Hall, Pontus de Tyard and his Discours philosophiques (1963); Tyard, Mantice ... edition critique par Madame Sylviane Bokdam (1990).

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