François d'AMBOISE. Le Tumbeau de Messire Gilles... Lot 53

[François d'AMBOISE]. Le Tumbeau de Messire Gilles Bourdin, chevalier, seigneur d'Assy... en plusieurs langues Recueilli de plusieurs scavans personnages de la France. - François d'AMBOISE. Tumulus amplissimi viri. Le Tombeau de... Gilles Bourdin. Paris, Denis du Pré, 1570. 2 plates in one volume in-4, midnight blue Jansenist chagrin, smooth spine ( Modern binding). Brunet, Supplément I-36 // Lachèvre, 243 // Rothschild, 815. I. (12 f.) / A-C4// II (6 f.) / A4, B2 / 143 x 205 mm. First edition of these two booklets published in tribute to Gilles Bourdin, advisor to the King's Privy Council, Attorney General at the Paris Parliament and scholar and patron of the arts. Born in 1515, Gilles Bourdin was an avocat général before being appointed procureur général du Roi. A true humanist, he knew Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and wrote a commentary on Aristophanes and paraphrases on edicts in these languages. His death in 1570 prompted many writers to pay tribute to him. His Tombeau are twenty-four pieces by seventeen authors, in French, Latin, Greek and Hebrew verse, by Dorat, Pasquier, Baïf, Jodelle, Belleforest, Desportes, Thevet, etc. François d'Amboise (1550-1619), himself a magistrate and poet, was particularly close to Gilles Bourdin, and wrote his own Tombeau in Latin and French. Minor rubbing. Fine dampstaining at foot of first two quires.