De Biragues, Flaminio (ca. 1580)
De Biragues, Flaminio (ca. 1580)
Author of a work entitled l'Enfer de la mere Cardine (Paris, 1585), which treats the dreadful battle in hell on the occasion of the marriage of Cerberus and Cardine. It is a satire on the demonography of the times. Didot reprinted the work in 1793. The author was a nephew of a chancellor of France, Rene de Biragues, and also published a volume of his own poems.
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