Michel de Marolles
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Engraving
Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing...
s. He became a monk in 1610 and later was abbot of Villeloin
Villeloin-Coulangé
Villeloin-Coulangé is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France.-See also:*Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department...
(1626–1674). He was the author of many translations of Latin poets and was part of many salon
Salon (gathering)
A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine taste and increase their knowledge of the participants through conversation. These gatherings often consciously followed Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to...
s, notably that of Madeleine de Scudéry
Madeleine de Scudéry
Madeleine de Scudéry , often known simply as Mademoiselle de Scudéry, was a French writer. She was the younger sister of author Georges de Scudéry.-Biography:...
. He is best known for having collected 123,000 engravings (bought from him in 1667 by Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert was a French politician who served as the Minister of Finances of France from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. His relentless hard work and thrift made him an esteemed minister. He achieved a reputation for his work of improving the state of French manufacturing...
for Louis XIV
Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV , known as Louis the Great or the Sun King , was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre. His reign, from 1643 to his death in 1715, began at the age of four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days...
for 28,000 livres) - this acquisition is considered the foundation of the cabinet
Cabinet of curiosities
A cabinet of curiosities was an encyclopedic collection in Renaissance Europe of types of objects whose categorical boundaries were yet to be defined. They were also known by various names such as Cabinet of Wonder, and in German Kunstkammer or Wunderkammer...
of engravings in the royal library
Bibliothèque nationale de France
The is the National Library of France, located in Paris. It is intended to be the repository of all that is published in France. The current president of the library is Bruno Racine.-History:...
, though it was only constituted as a department in 1720.
Translations
- Liturgy : L'Office de la semaine saincte, selon le missel et bréviaire romain, en latin et en françois (The Office for Holy Week, according to the missal and Roman Breviary, in Latin and French, 1645)
- LucanMarcus Annaeus LucanusMarcus Annaeus Lucanus , better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman poet, born in Corduba , in the Hispania Baetica. Despite his short life, he is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of the Imperial Latin period...
: Les Œuvres de M. Année Lucain, ou l'Histoire des guerres civiles entre César et Pompée et des principaux combats qui se passèrent en la sanglante journée de Pharsale (The Works of M. Annius Lucan, or the History of the civil wars between Caesar and Pompey and the main fights which happened on the bloody day at Pharsalus, 1623, 1647 & 1649) - VirgilVirgilPublius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English , was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues , the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid...
: Les Œuvres de Virgile, traduites en prose, enrichies de tables, remarques, commentaires, éloges et vie de l'autheur, avec une explication géographique du voyage d'Énée et de l'ancienne Italie et un Abrégé de l'histoire, contenant ce qui s'est passé de plus mémorable depuis l'embrazement de Troye jusques à l'empire d'Auguste, pour l'intelligence du poëte (The Works of Virgil, translated into prose, enriched with tables, remarks, commentaries, elogies and the life of the author, with a geographical explanation of Aeneas's voyage and an abstract of the plot, containing the most memorable events from the burning of Troy to the empire of Augustus, for the poet's intelligence., 1649) - LucretiusLucretiusTitus Lucretius Carus was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is an epic philosophical poem laying out the beliefs of Epicureanism, De rerum natura, translated into English as On the Nature of Things or "On the Nature of the Universe".Virtually no details have come down concerning...
: Le Poète Lucrèce, latin et françois (The Poet Lucretius, in Latin and French, 1659) - HoraceHoraceQuintus Horatius Flaccus , known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.-Life:...
: Les Œuvres, en latin et françois (The Works, in Latin and French, 2 volumes, 1652-1653) - CatullusCatullusGaius Valerius Catullus was a Latin poet of the Republican period. His surviving works are still read widely, and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art.-Biography:...
, TibullusTibullusAlbius Tibullus was a Latin poet and writer of elegies.Little is known about his life. His first and second books of poetry are extant; many other texts attributed to Tibullus are of questionable origins. There are only a few references to him in later writers and a short Life of doubtful authority...
, Propertius : Catulle, Tibulle, Properce, de la traduction de M. de Marolle (Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, in the translation by M. de Marolle, 2 volumes, 1653) - MartialMartialMarcus Valerius Martialis , was a Latin poet from Hispania best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan...
: Toutes les Épigrammes, en latin et en françois (All the Epigrams, in Latin and French, 1655) - JuvenalJuvenalThe Satires are a collection of satirical poems by the Latin author Juvenal written in the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD.Juvenal is credited with sixteen known poems divided among five books; all are in the Roman genre of satire, which, at its most basic in the time of the author, comprised a...
and Persius : Les Satires de Juvénal et de Perse (The Satires of Juvenal and Persius, 1658) - StatiusStatiusPublius Papinius Statius was a Roman poet of the 1st century CE . Besides his poetry in Latin, which include an epic poem, the Thebaid, a collection of occasional poetry, the Silvae, and the unfinished epic, the Achilleid, he is best known for his appearance as a major character in the Purgatory...
: Les Sylves et l'Achilléide (The Silvae and AchilleidAchilleidThe Achilleid is an unfinished epic poem by Publius Papinius Statius that was intended to present the life of Achilles from his youth through his death at Troy. Only about one and a half books were completed before the poet's death...
, 1658) - Statius : La Thébaïde (The ThebaidThebaidThe Thebaid or Thebais is the region of ancient Egypt containing the thirteen southernmost nomes of Upper Egypt, from Abydos to Aswan. It acquired its name from its proximity to the ancient Egyptian capital of Thebes....
, 1658) - PlautusPlautusTitus Maccius Plautus , commonly known as "Plautus", was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest surviving intact works in Latin literature. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by the innovator of Latin literature, Livius Andronicus...
: Les Comédies de Plaute, avec des remarques en latin et en françoys (The Comedies of Plautus, with notes in Latin and French, 1658) - Liturgy : Le Bréviaire romain (The Roman Breviary, 1659)
- Lucretius : Les Six Livres de la Nature des choses (The Six Books of On the Nature of ThingsOn the Nature of ThingsDe rerum natura is a 1st century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. The poem, written in some 7,400 dactylic hexameters, is divided into six untitled books, and explores Epicurean physics through richly...
, 1659) - SenecaSeneca the YoungerLucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero...
: Les Tragédies (The Tragedies, 1659) - OvidOvidPublius Ovidius Naso , known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria...
: Les Livres de l'Art d'aimer et des Remèdes d'amour (The Ars AmatoriaArs AmatoriaThe Ars amatoria is an instructional love elegy in three books by the Roman poet Ovid, penned around 2 CE. It claims to provide teaching in three areas of general preoccupation: how and where to find women in Rome, how to seduce them, and how to prevent others from stealing them.-Background:After...
and the Remedia AmorisRemedia AmorisRemedia Amoris is a 814 line poem in Latin by the Roman poet Ovid.In this poem, Ovid offers advices and strategies to avoid being hurt by love feelings, or to fall out of love, with a stoic overtone...
, 1660). Republished : Les Bibliophiles de Montmartre, Paris, 1950. - Ovid : Les Fastes (FastiFasti (poem)The Fasti is a six-book Latin poem by Ovid believed to have been left unfinished when the poet was exiled to Tomis by the emperor Augustus in the year 8...
, 1660) - Ovid : Les Épistres héroïdes d'Ovide (HeroidesHeroidesThe Heroides , or Epistulae Heroidum , are a collection of fifteen epistolary poems composed by Ovid in Latin elegiac couplets, and presented as though written by a selection of aggrieved heroines of Greek and Roman mythology, in address to their heroic lovers who have in some way mistreated,...
of Ovid, 1661) - Ovid : Les Tristes d'Ovide, de la Traduction de M. D. M. A. D. V. (The TristiaTristiaThe Tristia is a collection of letters written in elegiac couplets by the Augustan poet Ovid during his exile from Rome. Despite five books of his copious bewailing of his fate, the immediate cause of Augustus's banishment of the greatest living Latin poet to Pontus in 8 AD remains a mystery...
of Ovid, in the Translation by M. D. M. A. D. V., Paris, Veuve de Pierre Lamy, 1661) - Ovid : Les Quatre Livres des Épistres d'Ovide, escrites du lieu de son exil dans la province de Pont (The Four Books of Ovid's letters, written in exile in the province of PontusEpistulae ex PontoEpistulae ex Ponto is a work of Ovid, in four books. It is especially important for our knowledge of Scythia Minor in his time....
, 1661) - Ovid : Recueil de diverses pièces d'Ovide, et d'autres poëtes anciens, […], en latin et en françois, de la Traduction de M. D. M. A. D. V. (Collection of several pieces by Ovid and other antique poets ..., in Latin and French, in the translation by M. D. M. A. D. V., Paris, Louis Billaine, 1661)
- Virgil : L'Énéide. Les Bucoliques. Les Géorgiques (The Aeneid, the Bucolics, the Georgics, 3 volumes, 1662)
- BibleBibleThe Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
: Le Nouveau Testament de Nostre Seigneur Jésus-Christ (The New Testament of Our Lord Jesus Christ, 1664) - Bible : Livres des pseaumes et cantiques, latin et françois, de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament, enrichis de préfaces, argumens, titres et briefves annotations (Books of the psalms and songs, in Latin and French, from the Old and New Testament, enriched with prefaces, arguments, titles and brief annotations, 1666)
- Aelius Lampridius : L'Histoire auguste des six autheurs anciens (The Historia Augusta from six ancient authors, 1667)
- Petronius : Le Pétrone en vers (Petronius in verse, 1667)
- Gregory of ToursGregory of ToursSaint Gregory of Tours was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of Gaul. He was born Georgius Florentius, later adding the name Gregorius in honour of his maternal great-grandfather...
: L'Histoire des François de S. Grégoire, evesque de Tours, qui vivait il y a près d'onze cents ans ; avec le Supplément de Frédégaire, écrit par les ordres de Childebrand, frère de Charles-Martel. La seconde partie des Histoires de S. Grégoire, contenant ses livres de la gloire des martyrs et des confesseurs, avec les quatre livres de la vie de S. Martin, et celuy de la vie des Pères (The history of the Franks by St Gregory, bishop of Tours, who lived around 1100; with the Supplement of Fredegar, written on the order of Childebrand, brother of Charles Martel. The second part of the Histories of St Gregory, containing his books on the glory of the martyrs and confessors, with the four books of the life of St Martin, and that on the life of the Fathers, 1668) - Petronius : Les Poèmes de l'embrazement de Troye et du changement de la République romaine, en concurrence de Virgile et de Lucain, par un fameux auteur du temps de Néron, traduits en vers (The Poems on the burning of Troy and the changing of the Roman republic, in parallel with those of Virgil and Lucan, by a famous author of the time of Nero, translated into verse, 1671)
- Catullus : Les Épitalames de Catulle et les Nopces de Pélée et de Thétis, avec le poëme des Éloges de Vénus, traduits en vers (The Epithlamia of Catullus and the Marriage of Peleus and Thetis, with the poem of the Praises of Venus, translated into verse, 1671)
- PhocasPhocasPhocas was Byzantine Emperor from 602 to 610. He usurped the throne from the Emperor Maurice, and was himself overthrown by Heraclius after losing a civil war.-Origins:...
: La Vie de Virgile écrite en vers, avec plusieurs Éloges et toutes les Épigrammes des douze autheurs, lesquels ont écrit différemment sur un mesme sujet. Les Catalectes de Virgile et de quelques autres poètes anciens, traduits en vers (The Life of Virgil in verse, with many Elogies and all the Epigrams of 12 authors, which were written differently on the same subject. The Catalects of Virgil and several ancient poets, translated into verse., 1671) - BibleBibleThe Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
: Le Livre de la Genèse, le livre de l'Exode, & les XXIII premiers chapitres du Lévitique, traduits en franc̜ois, avec des notes (The Book of Genesis, the Book of Exodus and the first 23 chapters of Leviticus, translated into French, with notes, c. 1671) - Ammianus MarcellinusAmmianus MarcellinusAmmianus Marcellinus was a fourth-century Roman historian. He wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from Antiquity...
: Les dix-huit Livres qui nous restent des XXXI de l'histoire qu'avait composée Ammian Marcellin, depuis l'an de N. S. 354 jusques en 378 (The 28 surviving books from the 31 books of the history composed by Ammianus Marcellinus, from AD 354 to 378, 1672) - Various authors : Les Catalectes des anciens poètes latins, première partie contenant les second et troisième livres, selon le recueil de Scaliger (The Catalects of ancient Latin poets, first part containing the second and third books, according to the account of Scaliger, 1675)
- Martial : Les Quinze livres, traduits en vers avec des remarques et des tables (The 15 books, translated into verse with remarks and tables, 1675)
- Ovid : Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide comprises en quatre vers pour chaque fable des 15 livres de cet ouvrage ou plus tôt pour leur servir d'argument (The Metamorphoses of Ovid, made up of 4 poems for each fable in the 15 books of this work, or sooner to serve their argument, 1677)
- Bible : Le Cantique des cantiques de Salomon. Traduction en vers selon le sens litteral (The Song of Songs by Solomon. Verse translation according to the literal sense., 1677)
- Bible : La Prophétie de Daniel. Traduction en vers (The Prophecy of Daniel. Verse translation, 1677)
- Bible : Traduction en vers de l'Apocalypse de Saint Jean apostre, selon le sens litteral exprimé par la version latine appellée Vulgate, & par les autres versions franc̜oises approuvées (Verse translation of the Apocalypse of Saint John the Apostle, according to the literal sense expressed in the Latin version called the Vulgate, and by other approved French versions, 1677)
- Bible : Les Prophètes Jonas et Nahum. Touchant la pénitence des Ninivites. Traduction en vers, avec des remarques (The Prophets Jonah and Nehemiah. Touching on the penitence of the Ninevites. Verse translation, with remarks., 1678)
- Ovid : Toutes les pièces qui nous restent de ce poète, lesquelles il composa pendant son exil, contenues dans les deux grands ouvrages que nous avons de luy sur ce sujet sous deux titres différents de Tristes et de Pont (All this poet's surviving works, those composed in his exile, contained in the two great works we have read on this subject under the different titles Tristia and ex Ponto, 1660)
- Bible : Les Épistres et Evangiles, avec les Oraisons propres (The Epistles and Gospels, with their own prayers, 1688)
- Various authors : Analise, ou Description succincte des choses contenues dans les quinze livres des Deipnosophistes d'Athénée, ouvrage délicieux traduit pour la première fois en françois (s.d.)
Engravings
- Les Misères et les malheurs de la guerre (1633). Captions by Michel de Marolles accompanying the engravings of Jacques CallotJacques CallotJacques Callot was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine . He is an important figure in the development of the old master print...
. Republished : B. Laville, Paris, 1969. - Tableaux du temple des muses tirez du cabinet de feu Mr Favereau, et gravez en tailles-douces par les meilleurs maistres de son temps pour représenter les vertus et les vices, sur les plus illustres fables de l'antiquité, avec les descriptions, remarques et annotations (1655)
- Catalogue de livres d'estampes et de figures en taille douce, avec un dénombrement des pièces qui y sont contenues, fait à Paris en l'année 1666 (1666)
- Catalogue de livres d'estampes et de figures en taille-douce, avec un dénombrement des pièces qui y sont contenues, fait à Paris en l'année 1672 (1672)
- Le Livre des peintres et des graveurs (1862)
Histories and other
- Histoire romaine [de Nicolas CoeffeteauNicolas CoeffeteauNicolas Coeffeteau was a French theologian, poet and historian born at Saint-Calais.He entered the Dominican order and lectured on philosophy at Paris, being also ordinary preacher to Henry IV, and afterwards ambassador at Rome....
], continuée depuis le commencement de l'empire de Dioclétian et de Maximian jusques à celuy de Valentinian et de Valens, avec les épitomés de Messala Corvinus, Aurelius Victor, Sextus Rufus, et autres (1630) - Les Mémoires de Michel de Marolles, abbé de Villeloin, divisés en trois parties, contenant ce qu'il a vu de plus remarquable en sa vie, depuis l'année 1600, ses entretiens avec quelques-uns des plus savants hommes de son temps, et les généalogies de quelques familles alliées dans la sienne ; avec une briève description de la très-illustre maison de Mantoue et de Nevers (1656)
- Suitte des Mémoires de Michel de Marolles abbé de Villeloin contenant douze traitez sur divers Sujets curieux... (1657)
- Mémoires de Michel de Marolles abbé de Villeloin. Avec des notes historiques et critiques [by abbé Gouget] (1755). This edition does not include the interesting genealogical notes in the Sommaville edition of 1656, though they do appear in a rare Suitte of 1657
- Traité du poëme épique, pour l'intelligence de l'Énéïde de Virgile (1662). Réédition : Olms, New York, 1974.
- Histoire des roys de France et des choses plus mémorables qui se sont passées sous leur règne. Écrite en abregé sur le modèle des anciens (1663)
- Paris, ou la Description succincte, et néanmoins assez ample, de cette grande ville, par un certain nombre d'épigrammes de quatre vers chacune, sur divers sujets (1677)
- Trois essais pour la version entière de la Bible, selon l'édition qui fut commencée de l'année 1665 (1678)
- Les Histoires des anciens comtes d'Anjou et de la construction d'Amboise, avec des remarques sur chaque ouvrage (1681)
- Inventaire des titres de Nevers, de l'abbé de Marolles, suivi d'extraits des titres de Bourgogne et de Nivernois, d'extraits des inventaires des archives de l'église de Nevers et de l'inventaire des archives des Bordes, publié et annoté par le Cte de Soultrait (1873)
- Géographie sacrée contenant les noms de tous les éveschés de l'Église latine. Les Apostres. Les Saints évangélistes. Les SS. Docteurs de l'Église. Les Papes qui ont esté depuis 1600 (s.d.)
- Considérations sur une critique judicieuse qui s'est faite sur l'Énéide de Virgile, avec des exemples tirez des versions de quelqu'autres ouvrages de plusieurs poètes illustres de l'antiquité, pour montrer ce que peut notre langue françoise sur ce sujet (s.d.)
- Le Roy, les personnes de la cour, qui sont de la première qualité, et quelques-uns de la noblesse qui ont aimé les lettres ou qui s'y sont signalés par quelques ouvrages considérables (s.d.)