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Excerpt from Life and Works of Pierre Larivey
Next followed in 1579 the first six comedies, bearing the title, Les six premieres comedies facecieuses ole Piewe dc Lam'vey, Champenois, d l'z'mitatc'on des anciens Grecs, Latins ct modernes Italians. This edition was published at Paris by Abel l'angelier. A second edition was issued in 1597 at Lyon, and a third in 1601 at Rouen. It is dedicated to Hancois d'amboise, Advocat eu Parlement, whom Larivey calls the best of his best friends, and whose powerful protection he invokes against those who may misjudge his good intentions. He invokes this pro tection more especially because it was Francois d'amboise who, along with M. Le Breton, had induced him to under take the work. This work he calls a new method of writing, composed' in the modern fashion, though modelled after several Italian authors, whose names he mentions promiscuously. He justifies his work, both as to its form and tendency, not only because he is imitating the Latins and Greek, but also because, as a true mirror of life it holds Vice up to ridicule and virtue to approbation. He thinks it is he who, by writing these plays in prose, establishes this kind of dramatic composition in France, admitting, however, that others have translated prose comedy before him, but denying having seen any such in He defends his use of prose instead of verse.
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