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HISTORY AND CURRENT EVENTS
contre les Venitiens (PR 1509, 4*). The oration made before Pope Julius II
by Cardinal Guillaume Brigonnet, described as an apologia for Louis XII,
appeared 'cum priuilegio', however (CP 1507, i), as did a French translation
of the Pope's admonition against the Venetians (CP 1509, 2). Men
of letters in the royal service made their contributions, such as Jean
Danton's Les espitres envoyees au Roy dela montz par les estatz de France, for
which his printer advertised possession of a privilege (CP 1509, i). A
naval engagement between English and Breton ships which took place on
10 August 1512 elicited a poem from Germain de Brie or Brixius, secretary
to Anne of Brittany, Ckordigerae nauis conflagratio (CH 1513, i), praising the
heroism of the commander of the Breton flagship which was destroyed.
(The pugnacious tone of the poem much annoyed Brixius' English friends
like Thomas More.) 1
Obituaries too might qualify for privileges. An elegy by Antoine Forestier
or Sylviolus, who described himself as 'a Parisian', commemorated
the death (on 25 May 1510) of Georges d'Amboise, Cardinal Archbishop
of Rouen and French Viceroy of Milan (PR 1510, i). The death of Anne
of Brittany (9 January 1514) was deplored not only by the faithful
Germain de Brie but also by Laurent Desmoulins (PR 1514, i), by Fausto
Andrelini in a Latin panegyric (PA 1515, 3), and in a Latin lament put
into the mouth of her daughter Claude by Arnaldus Avedelis called Sonis
(CP 1514, 2). The ensuing treaty with England (PR 1514, 2), followed by
Louis XII's marriage to Princess Mary of England as his third wife,
brought festive occasions of which descriptions were much in demand: the
new queen's arrival, and the wedding (PR 1514, 3), and her state entry
into Paris (PR 1514, 4), with the customary jousts (CH 1514, 5). On the
death of Louis XII and the accession of Francis I, the coronation at
Reims (PR 1515, i), and various congratulatory verses (e.g. PR 1515, 2),
led up to many subsequent celebrations after the king's triumphant return
from his campaign in Italy. Such were the state entry of Queen Claude
into Paris (PR 1517, 4) and of the king into Rouen (PR 1517, 6), the
reception of the English envoys on the engagement of the infant Dauphin
Francis to the infant daughter of Henry VIII (CH 1518, 6 (i)), and the
Field of the Cloth of Gold (PR 1520, 6). An anonymous account of the
king's conquest of the duchy of Milan appeared in 1518 (PR 1518, i). The
only event outside France and the territories claimed by France of which
the news appeared under privilege was the siege of Rhodes (PR 1525, 4).
Naturally many such ephemeral publications appeared without a privilege
in this period when application for a privilege was optional, for instance
many
of the other accounts of the Field of the Cloth of Gold.
Erasmus, Opus Epist., ed. Allen, i, pp. 447-8, and iv, pp. 2i8fT., 252 and 295 (note).
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