Antoine du Verdier (11 November 1544 – 25 September 1600),[1] lord of Vauprivast, was a French politician and writer.
Du Verdier was born in Saint-Bonnet-le-Château, Loire.[1] He was conseiller du roi and controller-general in Lyon, but is best known for his work as a bibliographer alongside his friend and contemporary François Grudé.
Publications
edit- Prosopographie, description des personnages-insignes, avec portraits, Lyon, 1573
- Bibliothèque d'Ant. Duverdier, contenant le catalogue de tous les auteurs qui ont écrit en français, 1585, valuable work of bibliography, reprinted in 1772–1773 with that of the La Croix du Maine.
Notes
edit- ^ a b Du Verdier, Antoine (1544-1600), Notice de personne, BnF. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
Sources
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Bouillet, Marie-Nicolas; Chassang, Alexis, eds. (1878). "DUVERDIER (Ant.)". Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French).
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Antoine du Verdier.
- Portrait, à Cartari, Vincenzo (1531 - ca 1571): Imagines Deorum, Qui Ab Antiquis Colebantur (1581)
- La Croix du Maine, Antoine du Verdier, "Les Bibliothèques françoises", Paris, Saillant & Nyon, 1773, numbered by Google Books :
- 1st volume La Croix du Maine, volume 1
- 2nd volume La Croix du Maine, volume 2
- 3rd volume Du Verdier, volume 1
- 4th volume Du Verdier, volume 2
- 5th volume Du Verdier, volume 3
- 6th volume Errata, epitomes bibliothecae gesnerianae, etc.
- Antoine du Verdier on data.bnf.fr. Archived 2018-08-31 at the Wayback Machine
