"New Remarks On Virgil And Homer And The Alleged Poetic Style 1710"
A beautiful copy in a full volume tinted calfskin spine with raised bands decorated with beautiful gilded irons of the period title red morocco pink edges. New remarks on Vircile and on Homer and on the so-called poetic style of Holy Writing where The Sopho-Mories and the Follies of the Sages and the Learned. In which we refute the errors of the Spinofilles, Socinians & Arminians, & the particular & heterodox opinions of the most famous Authors, both ancient and modern. Pierre-Valentin Faydit (1644-1709) attacks here in particular the writings of Malebranche, Spinoza, the Calvinist theologian Jean Le Clerc, and offers curious considerations on "ophiogenic healers", the hoaxes of scholars, languages foreign, etc.