Le Moyen Age flamboyant : Po�sie et peinture Tapa dura - 2006

Diane de Selliers Editeur, 2006. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover, blue board with gold printed text, this fine copy is housed in an illustrated sheeth of the same boards. Sheeth has light wear, otherwise is in near fine condition. Pages contain full page illustrations and are without wear, toning, or spotting. Text is in French. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.

Paris: D. de Selliers, 2006. Hardcover. VG, slight rub marks on covers, sticker residue inside endpaper.. Blue cloth covers, gilt lettering. 1 v. (382 pp.): coul. illustrations. This book brings together 110 poems from the 12th to the 15th century that constitute a remarkable part of our literary heritage. A libretto reproduces these poems in their original language: Oc language, oïl language and middle French. Guillaume IX, Arnaut Daniel, Colin Muset, Rutebeuf, Adam de la Halle, Guillaume de Machaut, Christine de Pizan, Charles d'Orléans, François Villon, more than fifty poets represent the four founding centuries of our poetry. From the delicacy of the first love songs to the refinement of the ballads, this book reveals a universe endowed with unexpected emotional strength and freedom of mind. In his preface, Michel Zink, a member of the Institute and a professor at the Collège de France, shows how these four centuries of medieval lyricism, full of love, resonates with the shimmering art of… Leer más