François de Callieres - Histoire poétique de la guerre...

François de Callières, Poetic History of the Recently Declared War Between the Ancients and the Moderns. Amsterdam, On the Printed Copy in Paris, (1688). Petit in-12, (12) ff., 263 pp., folding plate representing the different literary currents in order of battle, tawny eighteenth-century calf, gold chain on the boards, smooth spine ornamented. Counterfeit of the Paris edition of the same year, Amsterdam, Pierre Savouret (Kalver-Straat), 1688. In this satire in the form of an epic narrative, Callières transforms the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns into a real war between the great authors of Antiquity and those of modern times. The writers, poets, and artists are divided into two armies that clash on Parnassus. Through this burlesque fiction, Callières draws a sort of cartography of the literary world of his time, without clearly taking sides for one camp or the other.

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