[La Curne de Saint-Palaye, Jean-Baptiste de - Abbé Millot]. - Lot 257

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[La Curne de Saint-Palaye, Jean-Baptiste de - Abbé Millot]. - Lot 257
[La Curne de Saint-Palaye, Jean-Baptiste de - Abbé Millot]. - Histoire littéraire des troubadours contenant leurs vies, les extraits de leurs pièces et plusieurs particularités sur les moeurs, les usages et l'histoire du douzième et du treizième siècles. Paris, Durand, 1774. 3 volumes in-12 bound in full contemporary calf, spines very ornate, title (red) and tome (brown), red edges - very light wetness affecting volumes I - II, tail cap of volume I faded - XII, 468 pp. ; VIII, 504 pp. ; VIII, 456 pp. Written according to the notes of the learned medievalist of the 18th century, La Curne de St-Pallaye, this work was put in order by the Abbé Millot. More than a literary history, it is a history of the known troubadours, listing 142 biographies and citing 136 additional names of troubadours on whom little information could be found. This work is not without literary criticism for the best known troubadours. There is also a selection of some representative texts from the repertoire of these poets.
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