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Montaigne published the first two volumes of his Essais in 1580, printed by Simon Millanges [] in Bordeaux. [4] The books' success (1582 - a re-edition published in Bordeaux; [5] a possible re-edition published in Rouen before 1584 [6] and in 1587 a re-edition published in Paris [7]) attracted the interest of the Paris publisher Abel L'Angelier [], who, in 1588, published a new modified and ...
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
B: passages written 1580–1588, published 1588 C: passages written 1588–1592, published 1595 (posthumously) [ 9 ] [ 10 ] A copy of the fifth edition of the Essais with Montaigne's own "C" additions in his own hand exists, preserved at the Municipal Library of Bordeaux (known to editors as the Bordeaux Copy ). [ 11 ]
Les Petits Chanteurs de Passy sing the pavane Belle qui tiens ma vie of Thoinot Arbeau. Thoinot Arbeau is the anagrammatic pen name of French cleric Jehan Tabourot (March 17, 1520 – July 23, 1595). [1]
William Camden (2 May 1551 – 9 November 1623) was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland that relates landscape, geography, antiquarianism, and history, and the Annales, the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.
John Winthrop (January 12, 1588 [a] – March 26, 1649) was an English Puritan lawyer and a leading figure in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second major settlement in New England following Plymouth Colony.
De casibus is an encyclopedia of historical biography and a part of the classical tradition of historiography.It deals with the fortunes and calamities of famous people starting with the biblical Adam, going to mythological and ancient people, then to people of Boccaccio's own time in the fourteenth century. [1]