Gaspard II de Coligny (1519 1572) Illustrium Aliquot Germano

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Gaspard II de Coligny (1519-1572) Illustrium Aliquot Germanorum Carminum Liber. Quarto, a-e4; title page somewhat toned, contents generally good, bound in full tan calf by Koehler, bookplate of Robert Marchionis de Crewe pasted inside the front board, along with a diamond-shaped book ticket with the initials CC; 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. Vilnae [i.e. Basel]: [Pietro Perna], 1573.

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This collection of verses was compiled in remembrance of the St. Bartholomew's Eve Massacre. Several thousand French Huguenots were brutally attacked and murdered in Paris after an attempted assassination of de Coligny, their military and political leader. Henry III of Navarre (later Henry IV of France) ordered the assassination and the additional attacks, which gripped Paris for several weeks in late August and early September of 1572.