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De Torche‟s French text only. With the same engraved frontispiece and 5 plates,
extrait du privilège and achevé d‟imprimer as in the bilingual edition above.
FirstSearch. Dalla Valle. French books 1601-1700, reel 173, item 3. Gallica.
4. [Pastor fido: French]. Le berger fidelle. 4 pts. Paris: Gabriel Quinet, 1667, 12°.
pp. [24], 54, 60, 65, 104.
*BNFRichelieu: 8º Re.4154.
De Torche‟s French text only. With engraved frontispiece and 5 plates.
Horn-Monval III, 68 (no. 915).
1668
1. [Pastor fido: French]. Le berger fidele. Autrement Pastor fido, tragi-comedie
pastorale … traduite en prose françoise par Bl. Teppati. Enrichie de tres-belles
figures. A Nuremberg, aux dépens de l‟autheur, chez Chrestoffle Girard, 1668, 12º.
Pp. [25], 421, [11].
Taylorian: Arch.12º.It.1668.
Only edition of the prose translation of Biagio (Blaise) Teppati and with his signature
on sig. a4 at the end of the address entitled L‟Autheur au Lecteur. The volume is
dedicated to Adrian Juncker, Daniel Juncker and Chrestofle Heerfordt, and Teppati
adds a madrigal which he dedicates to Guarini. The translation ends on p. 421, the
remaining 11 unnumbered pages, „ces cinq feuilléts qui fussent demürés en blanc‟,
being occupied by 11 poems of Guarini and his contemporaries and by a list of errata.
The engraved titlepage and 6 plates are by Georg Christoph Eimmart (1638-1704).
As Teppati explains in his introduction (sig. a3 vº): „les jolyes Figures en taille-douce
de M. EIMMART dont j‟ay enrichy ce mien Ouvrage, où toutes les Scenes de chaqu‟
Acte sont contenuës, avec le nom et le nombre au dessous; mémement l‟ACTE & la
SCENE sur châque fueillét: qu‟est-ce si non un muët trucheman, pour bien entendre
tout le sujét y compris?‟ With this clue in mind, we may be assured that one of the
figures on the title-page represents Teppati himself, as the initials „B.L.T.‟ appear
under one of them.
FirstSearch. Dalla Valle.