German translation of Antoine Godeau's "Les Tableaux de la Penitence" (1654) printed in Munich by Maria Magdalena Rieblin for the Publisher and Book Dealer Johann Gastl, City at Hof, near Regensburg, 1739, Second edition [first German edition appeared in 1715]; illustrated with 18 copper plates and frontispiece present.

Original German title:

"Abbildungen, oder Entwurff der Buss, Das ist Zwey und Zwainssig den Sunder zur Buss anmahnende. Historien, Beschriben in Frantsosischer Sprach Durch Den Hochwurdigisten Herrn Antonium Godeau Bischoffen zu Vence in Franckreich..." Anderte Auflag. Cum per missu superiorum.

Hard boards; leather, leather spine; 7.1/4" x 9.1/4"; some inscriptions on the front endpaper, frontispiece, 286 pages with text decorations + 18 cooper plates [printed on one side], some wear, high quality paper, very good condition.

Antoine Godeau (1605-1672) was a French bishop, writer, poet and interpreter of scripture. He is now primarily known for his work of criticism "Discours de la poesie chretienne" (1633). His verse-writing early won the interest of a relative in Paris, Valentin Conrart, at whose house the literary world gathered. The outcome of these meetings was the foundation of the Academie francaise, of which Godeau was one of the first members and the third whose lot it fell to deliver the weekly address to that body. At that time, to say of any work c'est de Godeau was to stamp it with the seal of approval. Perhaps best known among the works of his early days is his "Discours sur les oeuvres de Malherbe" (1629), which shows some critical power and is valuable for the history of the French prose of the seventeenth century.

Ordained priest in Paris on May 7, 1636, he was named on June 21 Bishop of Grasse by Cardinal Richelieu, to whom he had dedicated his first religious composition, a poetical paraphrase of the Psalm Benedicite omnia opera Domini. By a Bull of Pope Innocent X he was empowered to unite the Dioceses of Grasse and Vence under his administration, but seeing the dissatisfaction of the clergy of the latter diocese, he relinquished the former in 1653 and established himself at Vence.

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