François de Belleforest

François de Belleforest , French writer, born in 1530 with Comminges, dead on January 1st 1583 with Paris

It is a prolific author, poet and translator of the Renaissance. He is judged at the 19th century by the Dictionnaire Bouillet like fertile, but not very exact. He wrote on the most various matters.

He was born in a poor family and his/her father (a soldier) was killed when he was seven years old. He spent time to the court of Marguerite de Navarre, travelled to Toulouse and Bordeaux (where he met George Buchanan), then with Paris where he returns in liaison with members of the literary young generation with authors commes Pierre de Ronsard, Jean Antoine de Baïf, Jean Dorat, Remy Belleau, Antoine Of Verdier and Odet de Turnèbe. In 1568, it becomes Historiographe of the king Henri III, but the inaccuracy of its accounts made him lose this place. It then put at the pledges booksellers and flooded Paris of its writings.

Belleforest written on the Cosmography, morals, the literature and the history. It carries out translations in French of work of: Matteo Bandello, Boccace, Antonio de Guevara, Francesco Guicciardini, Polydore Vergil, Holy Cyprien, Sebastian Münster, Achilles Tatius, Cicéron and Démosthène.

He is also the author of the first French pastoral news, Pyrénée (or Pastoral in love the ) (1571) inspired of the Diana of Jorge de Montemayor. Its Grandes Annals is polemical writings against François Hotman. Its final work includes/understands approximately more than 50 volumes.

Its work more successful is its adaptation and its translation of the " tragic Stories " of Italian Matteo Bandello, who had been built on the work of Pierre Boaistuau and had been increased by 7 volumes (1564 - 1582). One of these subjects will be the source for Shakespeare legend of Hamlet.

The least bad works of Belleforest are for Bouillet :

  • History of the nine kings who had the name of Charles ;
  • Yearly or general History of France ;
  • tragic Stories (extracted from Matteo Bandello);
  • extraordinary Stories : in these the last two works, it did nothing but continue the work of Pierre Boaistuau.

Publications

  • the hunting of love (poem), 1561;
  • Continuation of the tragic stories, containing twelve stories drawn from Bandel…. , translation of Matteo Bandello, 1559;
  • tragic Stories , translation of Matteo Bandello, 7 volumes, 1566 - 1583;
  • Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe of Achilles Tatius, 1568;
  • Pyrénée (or Pastoral in love the ), 1571;
  • Harengue soldiers, and concions princes, captains, embassadeurs, and others manians as well the war as the businesses of Estat… Recueillis and faictes Françoyses . Paris, Nicolas Chesneau, 1572;
  • the universal Cosmography of everyone . Paris, 1575. Nicolas Chesneau and Michel Sonnius. Translation in French of the Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster.
  • Large Annals and general history of France , 1579;
  • sentences illustrated of m.t. Ciceron And apophthegmes, with quelquel sentences of piety, collected mesme Ciceron. Aveei most remarkable sentences so much of Terence… and of… Demosthene. The whole Translates lately of Latin into French by François of Beautiful-forest, Commingeoiis. Reveu & corrects . Jacob Stoer, Geneva, 1609;
  • chronicles and annals of France, right from the start of Francois, & their arrival as a Gaulle . Pierre Knight, 1621. The last edition and most complete of the Chronic of Nicole Gilles, whose original edition is of 1525.

Partial sources

  • Michel Simonin, Dictionary of the French letters - XVIe century. Paris: Beech, 2001.

See too

Other translators of the same time:
  • Jacques Amyot
  • Claude Colet
  • Jacques Gohory
  • Nicolas de Herberay of Essarts

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