Jacobi Vanierii è Societate Jesu Praedium Rusticum

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by Jacques Vanière

Jacobi Vanierii e Societate Jesu Praedium Rusticum
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Author Jacques Vanière
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Published Tolosæ: Apud Petrum Robert, Collegii Tolosani Societatis Jesu Typographum & Bibliopolam, sub Signo Nominis Jesu
Date 1742
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Jacques Vanière was a Jesuit priest and poet born March 9, 1664 in Causses within the diocese of Béziers.[1] He studied under a Jesuit priest, Father Joubert, who found that young Vanière had little talent for poetry.[2] Yet Vanière developed into a strong writer under Joubert's tutelage infusing his poetry with a deep admiration and respect for the countryside which he inherited from his parents.[3] Vanière entered the Jesuits to continue his study of the humanities and to teach students of his own. He died in Toulouse on August 22, 1739.[4]

Vanière gained prominence in France when he published two poems: Stagna and Columbae.[5] He also produced a volume of verses in Latin titled Recueil de vers latins and Dictionaire poetique, a dictionary for poetry. However, Praedium Rusticum is considered his greatest poetic work. It is comprised of 16 chants in the style of Virgil's Georgics.[6]

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Thomas Jefferson listed "Praedium Rusticum" in his inventory of Wythe's Library in the section of titles he kept for himself. He later sold a copy to the Library of Congress. Both Brown's Bibliography[7] and George Wythe's Library[8] on LibraryThing include the 1742 edition published in Toulouse based on the copy Jefferson sold as described in Millicent Sowerby's Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson.[9] Unfortunately, this volume does not survive to verify the edition or Wythe's prior ownership. The Wolf Law Library has not yet found a copy of this title.

See also

References

  1. Reynaud, Florian. L’elevage bovin: De l’agronome au paysan (1700-1850). Rennes: PU, 2010.
  2. Pérennès, Francois and Jacques Paul Pérennès Migne. Dictionnaire de biographie chrétienne...: N-Z. Migne, 1851.
  3. Ibid.
  4. Reynaud, L’elevage bovin.
  5. Pérennès & Migne, Dictionnaire de biographie chrétienne.
  6. Ibid.
  7. Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, 2009, rev. 2023) Microsoft Word document (on file at the Wolf Law Library, William & Mary Law School).
  8. LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on July 11, 2025, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe
  9. E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,(Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 4:525, no.4517.

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