Les Métamorphoses d’Hermès Tradition alchimique et esthétique littéraire dans la France de l’âge baroque (1583-1646)

At the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century, the promotion and spread of alchemical science went hand in hand with the development of an aesthetic of mystery, which left its characteristic mark on a vast corpus of treatises, discourses, commentaries and literary texts.