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adammclean Member 
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I have just read an article by Didier Kahn and become interested in Beroalde de Verville's alchemical novel Voyage des princes fortunez (1610), however, I do not seem to be able to locate a copy either on the Internet or in a library close to me. Has anyone made a study of this work ? Many years ago I tried to read the English translation by Arthus Machen of Beroalde's Le Moyen de parvenir, but could not make much of it at that time. I tried to buy a copy but it is a rather expensive secondhand book. I have a copy of Michael Giordano's Reverse transmutations: Beroalde de Verville's parody of Paracelsus in Le Moyen de parvenir: an alchemical language of skepticism in the French Baroque, from the Renaissance Quarterly 2003, which is quite a dense and detailed study, but nothing on Voyage des princes fortunez. |
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Tom Willard Member 
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Well, first of all, there is the first gathering of plates in Stanislas Klossowski de Rola's book The Golden Game (pages 25-28). Plate 2 is the title page from Le voyage des princes fortunz: Oeuvre steganographique. Commentary on the plate includes one paragraph on the 800-page novel and another on the frontispiece. Could you please post a citation for M. Kahn's article? |
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Tom Willard Member
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Oops! I sent the same post a second time. How do I delete a posting? I might mention that the other plate reproduces the title page from Beroalde's adaptation of the Hypnerotomachi Poliphili, which tries to place the dream in an alchemical context. Last edited on Wed Jun 25th, 2008 02:17 pm by Tom Willard |
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adammclean Member
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Tom Willard wrote:
This was Didier Kahn's Chapter 'King Henry IV, Alchemy, and Paracelsianism in France (1589-1610) ' in Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry, Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2007 |
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Paul Ferguson Member 
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adammclean wrote:I have just read an article by Didier Kahn and become interested in Beroalde de Verville's alchemical novel Voyage des princes fortunez (1610), however, I do not seem to be able to locate a copy either on the Internet or in a library close to me. |
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