Jacques Yver's Winter's Springtime : A Modern English Translation.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harp, Margaret.

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2024.

Summary:

A prose work interspersed with poetry, <cite>Le Printemps d'Yver</cite> was highly popular in its day, seeing thirty editions between 1572 and 1635. Jacques Yver's stories and their premise - three gentlemen and two noble women who spin five tales in order to distract each other from the horrors of the recent third religious war and to rejoice in the brief 1570 truce of Saint-Germain - provide an intriguing and distinctive continuation of this genre evocative of Boccaccio and Marguerite de Navarre. It reveals an author with a profound humanist education whose text, inspired by Bandello, engages the social and political controversies of late sixteenth-century France. Henry Wotton translated <cite>Le Printemps</cite> into early modern English in 1578, removing all references to the original author and title while also mistranslating, deleting, and substituting passages. This modern English translation constitutes the first complete translation of the original French text.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Anagram of Jacques Yver

To the Beautiful and Virtuous Young Ladies of France, Greetings

Sonnet by Joseph Yver on the Springtime by Jacques Yver, His Brother1

Response in Similar Rhyme by Marie Yver, Their Only Sister

To the Favorable and Good-Willed Reader, Greetings

First Day

Second Day

Third Day

Fourth Day

Fifth Day

Farewell to His Book

Death of the Author

On the Same Subject. Sonnet

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Introduction Anagram of Jacques Yver Dedication to the young women of France Sonnet by Joseph Yver on the <cite>Printemps</cite> by Jacques Yver, his brother Response in similar rhyme by Marie Yver, their only sister Preface to Readers First Day First Story Second Day Second Story Third Day Third Story Fourth Day Fourth Story Fifth Day Fifth Story Farewell to his book Quatrain on the death of the author Sonnet on the same

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ISBN:

1-003-69830-1

1-04-079393-2

90-485-5628-7

9781003698302

OCLC:

1468314640