Antoine of Dirty

Antoine of Dirty the , or the Room, is a French satirical writer of the 15th century.

Biography

The exact place of its birth is dubious: it was born in Provence, in the area arlésienne, towards 1386 (his father is Bernard of Dirty, known as Chicot, soldier mercenary, l'" eschelleur" cities about which Froissart in its Chroniques speaks to us; his/her mother, Perrinette Damendel, were a simple country-woman). Bastard, II entered early to the court of Anjou. He travelled in Italy (in 1407 he was in the Islands Lipari; in 1420 it went in the Marches and was interested in the legends of the Sibylline Mounts (see Sibylle), which it will tell seventeen years later for Agnès of Bourbon in her Paradis of the queen Sibylle ). It was attached initially to Louis III, duke of Anjou, king of Sicily, which took it as secretary of 1423 with 1434. To died from this prince, it passed to the service of the good " roi" Rene of Anjou. He wrote for the instruction of Jean known as " of Calabre" , wire of Rene of Anjou (which Maria in 1437 in Angers with Marie de Bourbon, girl of Agnes of Bourbon), the Salad , a teaching work intended for its education. The period of the voyages in Italy, ground of the myths, finished in 1442 when the Aragoneses took Naples, breaking forever the dream of hegemony of Angevins which wished to recover the heritage of the Jeanne queen of Provence. In 1448, disappointed because it had been remunerated little for its services, the Dirty one left Rene of Anjou and came in north from France, at the court of Louis of Luxembourg, count of Saint-pol., future seneshal of Louis XI, which perhaps presented it to Philippe the Good. This one had then given asylum to the Dauphin (since Louis XI) fleeing the anger of his/her father. The Dirty one was not long in attracting itself the good graces of exiled, which invited it to collaborate in the Hundred New news (whose 50e bears its name). Criticism however excludes this interpretation. The Dirty one is not the author nor did not collaborate in the Hundred New news , even if indeed fiftieth of those (the 50ème Nouvelle) carries its name (cf the Hundred New news , ED. F. - P. Sweetser, Geneva Droz, 1966, introd.). It composed the Salle , its second teaching work, intended for the education of wire of Louis of Luxembourg, and Saintré , its novel, where these values of the Middle Ages which are the Chevalerie and the courtesy are called in question. II towards 1462 died.

Its work

There is of him the Salade (which includes the Excursion in the Islands Lipari and the Paradis of the queen Sibylle ), the Salle and small Jehan de Saintré , its novel (a young widow, Madam of the Beautiful Cousins, educates the page Saintré and teaches the values of Christian morals to him. Beside lesson " théoriques" , it gives him also more useful recommendations on the manner of living and of behaving at the court: how to attract the favors of the king Jean II of France, etc At the end, Madam forsakes it - Saintré became a valorous knight meanwhile - to devote itself to the ashamed pleasures that a monk, Damp Abbé, offers to him. The court that the Dirty one describes in this novel is already that of the Rebirth, with its flattering and the money, which takes importance more and more). Holding apparently nostalgic old habits, the author also wrote a Traité old tournaments and feats of arms . With the nineteenth century one allotted to him also, but wrongly, the Hundred New news and the Fifteen Joyes de Mariage , major and malicious satires inspired of the Fifteen Joys of the Virgin .

Internal bonds

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