Translation of: Nouvelles raecraeations et joyeux devis.

Novel pastimes and merry tales (Studies in Romance languages)

Des Périers, Bonaventure

Literature & Fiction

University Press of Kentucky

The Nouvelles Récréations et Joyeaux Devis of Bonaventure des Périers are here translated for the first time into modern English. The translators have been successful in retaining the vitality of this important French Renaissance satirist, turning his colloquial sixteenth-century French into equally colloquial and lively American. The translation of the 129 tales is prefaced by a biographical study of des Périers both as man and artist, and a critical bibliography is also included.

Bonaventure des Périers's Novel Pastimes and Merry Tales (Studies In Romance Languages)

Humor & Satire

Cymbalum mundi. Or, satyrical dialogues upon several subjects, by Bonaventure des Perriers, ... To which is prefix'd a letter containing the history, ... Marchand. Done into English from the French.

Legal History

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++British LibraryT135354Includes: "A letter to Mr. B, P; & G. concerning the book entitled, Cymbalum mundi." by Prosper Marchand.  After p.xliii comes a separate titlepage: "Cymbalum mundi. Containing four poetical dialogues .. ".London : printed by T. Sharpe, for J. Newton, 1723. 8,[6],xliii,[1],77,[1]p.,plate ; 8°

Cymbalum Mundi: Or Satyrical Dialogues on Various Subjects. by Bonaventure Des Perriers ... with a Critical Letter Containing the History and Analysis ... ... Done Into English from the Original.

Reference

Des Priers, Bonaventure

Words, Language & Grammar

What did unauthorized thought look like in the French Renaissance, the Reformation, up to the early Enlightenment? Pantheism, atheism, deism, hedonism, and free philosophy in general. What happened to those who wrote books like these? They were decapitated, hung, strangled, burned, had their tongues cut out; they were also exiled, their books were burned, and their property was confiscated by the state hand handed to the Church. This collection consists of ten separate texts by different authors; each with an individual introduction by the translator. All of them have been newly translated here, some for the first time in centuries, many for the first time ever: -The amusing, extremely blasphemous dialogues from 1537 called 'Cymbalum Mundi', attributed to Bonaventure des Périers (1510-44); -The short atheistic text called 'Illustrious Reader', attributed to Jacques Gruet (?-1547), who was put to death for his beliefs in John Calvin's Geneva; -The controversial 'The Beatitude of the Christians, or the Scourge of Faith', by Geoffroy Vallée (1535-74), who was put to death for writing this book; -Selections on (secular) ethics and religion from 'On Wisdom' by Pierre Charron (1541-1603); -Selections on evolution and religion from 'De Admirandis Naturae Reginae...' by Lucilio Vanini (1585-1619), the famous martyr for free thought; -The poem "First Satire" by Théophile de Viau (1590-1626), another victim of the thought police; -The poem "The Deist's Quatrains", attributed to Claude Belurgey; -"A Dialogue on the Subject of the Private Life", by François de La Mothe Le Vayer (1588-1672); -A Selection of Libertine and Atheistic Songs by Claude de Chouvigny, baron de Blot l'Église (1605-55); -The hedonistic manuscript called "The Anti-Christian Philosopher", whose author is unknown, from the 1640s or '50s.

God / Reason / Nature: Post-Christian Thought, 1537-1650

Religion & Spirituality

Charron, Pierre

De Viau, Théophile

de La Mothe Le Vayer, François

Watson, Kirk

Gruet, Jacques

Vanini, Lucilio

de Chouvigny, Claude

Vallée, Geoffroy

Belurgey, Claude

Religious Studies

Independently published

Nouvelles Recreations Et Joyeux Devis (Societe Des Textes Francais Modernes) (French Edition)

Genre Fiction

Societe Des Textes Francais Modernes

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