Epigrams and Orations

REMOND, François.

Francisci Remondi Divionensis e Societate Iesu carmina et orationes. Secunda editio, carminibus, et orationibus ditata ab auctore recognita, et duplo prioribus auctior. La Flèche, Jacques Rezé, 1616.

8vo, pp. 16, 96, 308, [2], [2 (blank)]; woodcut Jesuit device to title, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces; closed marginal tear to S1, marginal chips to a few leaves, very occasional small marks; very good in contemporary limp vellum, title in ink at head of spine; ties wanting, a few small marks, lower cover slightly cockled; ownership inscriptions to front endpapers of ‘Joannes Baptista Raquidel’ (seventeenth-century) and ‘Franciscus Martin … 1727'.

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Later enlarged edition (based on that printed at Milan in 1614) of the poems and speeches of the French Jesuit François Remond (1558–1631).

A native of Dijon, Remond studied and taught in Italy; during the siege of Mantua he cared for soldiers suffering from the plague, subsequently falling victim to the disease himself.

The epigrams collected here encompass the Virgin Mary, Christ, Mary Magdalene, several saints, Henri IV, divine love, and St Alexius; others are addressed to popes, cardinals, and kings. Aside from funeral orations, the speeches cover various religious and secular subjects: the birth of the Virgin Mary, the feast of All Saints, the death of Christ, St Stephen, the Eucharist, penitence, and God’s love; the nature of winds, martial and literary arts, and justice and law.

Sommervogel VI, 1654; USTC 6804568. No copies of this edition traced in the UK or US.

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Epigrams and Orations

REMOND, François.

Francisci Remondi Divionensis e Societate Iesu carmina et orationes. Secunda editio, carminibus, et orationibus ditata ab auctore recognita, et duplo prioribus auctior. La Flèche, Jacques Rezé, 1616.