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Jean-Jacques Boissard
Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528 - October 30, 1602)
French antiquary and Latin poet, was born at Besançon.
He studied at Louvain; but, disgusted by the severity of his master, be secretly left that seminary, and after traversing a great part of Germany reached Italy, where he remained several years and was often reduced to great straits. His residence in Italy developed in his mind a taste for antiquities, and he soon. formed a collection of the most curious monuments from Rome and its vicinity.
He then visited the islands of the Archipelago, with the intention of travelling through Greece, but a severe illness obliged him to return to Rome. Here he resumed his favourite pursuits with great ardour, and having completed his collection, returned to his native country; but not being permitted to profess publicly the Protestant religion, which he had embraced some time before, he withdrew to Metz, where he remained till his death.
His most important works are:
* Poemata (1574)
* ''Emblemata (1584)
* Icones Virorum Illustrium (1597)
* Vitæ et Icones Sultanorum Turcicorum, Principum Persarum (1597)
Frankfurt am Main, Theodore de Bry, 1596.
WITH: BRY, Johann Theodor and Johann Israel de.
With engraved title-page, engraved portrait of the author, 46 (of 47) full-page engraved portraits of sultans and other figures from the history of the Ottoman empire, by Theodore DE BRY after Joris HOEFNAGEL. Stunningly illustrated book on the Ottoman empire, with portraits of the Ottoman sultans from Osman I to Murad III and other important figures in the history of the Ottoman empire, including several women. They are arranged chronologically, most with a two or three page historical text. They are beautifully engraved medallion portraits, each in a square decorative frame, which itself is surrounded by a finely engraved pictorial frame showing detailed images of animals (including birds and insects), plants (including flowers and fruit) and grotesque mythical creatures, and inscriptions in scrollwork panels at the head and foot.
* Theatrum Vitae Humanae (1596)
* Romanae Urbis Topogrephia (1597-1602), now very rare
* De Divinatione et Magicis Praestigiis (1605)
* Habitus Variarum Orbis Gentium (1581), ornamented with seventy illuminated figures.
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