Antoine Godeau LA VIE DE L APOSTRE SAINT PAUL 1651 Decorative Leather & Gilt Binding Catholic Church Life Apostle Saint Paul Letters Epistles

Title: La Vie de L'Apostre Saint Paul
Author: Antoine Godeau - Antoine Godeau was a French bishop, poet and exegete. He is now known for his work of criticism Discours de la poésie chrétienne from 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 Académie française, of which Godeau was one of the first members and the third whose lot it fell to deliver the weekly address to that body.

He was induced to settle in Paris, where he soon became a favorite at the Hôtel de Rambouillet, rivalling the famous writers of his period. 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 œuvres de Malherbe (1629), which shows some critical power and is valuable for the history of the French prose of the seventeenth century.

In 1636, he was named Bishop of Grasse by Richelieu, to whom he had dedicated his first religious composition, a poetical paraphrase of the Psalm Benedicite omnia opera Domini. He proved a model prelate. 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 and established himself at Vence.
Publisher: Chez le Veuue I. Camusat et P. le Petit
City: Paris
Year: 1651
Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 318 pages
Width: 3.5" Height: 5.5"
Book Details: This antique volume on the life of St. Paul is bound in full leather with raised spine bands, gilt lettering and tooling to the spine and board edges. The page edges are decoratively marbled in red. The title page is an elaborately engraved illustration of the Apostle St. Paul, and the text is enhanced with in-text engraved capitals and ornamentation.
Condition / Notes: This antique volume shows well with some typical indications of age and wear, including shelfwear and rubbing. There is minor loss to the high points of the spine. The binding and text block are sound. Text is clear and crisp on very clean pages. There is a small amount of writing in pencil to the pastedown endpapers.

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