Barclay (John)

Euphormionis Lusinini, sive Jo. Barclaii Satyricon

Lugd[uni] Batav[orum] : Ex Officiana Hackiana, 1674

(Franciscus Hackius, Leiden, 1674)



Original full vellum binding, engraved architectural title, woodcut initials and ornaments
 

8vo: 5 by 7.5"

Very good condition, except some repair at the lower right corner (at the margin) of about 70 pages 
 
Text in Latin


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John Barclay (1582 – 1621) was a Scottish writer, satirist and neo-Latin poet.

Barclay’s Euphormionis Lusinini Satyricon (1603–07) — a severe satire on the Jesuits, the medical profession, and contemporary scholarship, education, and literature—is modeled on the style of the Roman satirist Gaius Petronius Arbiter;
it is an urbane and facile mixture of prose and verse. Filled with villains and rogues,…

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