Jacques Amyot
Jacques Amyot , 1513-93, French humanist, translator of Heliodorus' Aethiopica (1547), of Longus' Daphnis and Chloë (1559), and particularly of Plutarch's Lives (1559).
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Pastoral and the humanities; Arcadia re-inscribed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2007; 112 words
; ...Scholars of European literature from classical to modern discuss such topics as the aesthetics and ethics of poikilia in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe, post-pastoral as a tool for ecocriticism, agnostic poetics in Virgil's Third Eclogue, and the pastoral mode in...
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Jean Dieuzaide, 1935-2003.
Magazine article from: Afterimage; 1/1/2004; ; 557 words
; ...Boubat, Robert Doisneau, Izis, and Willy Ronis, he belonged to the generation of photographers who defined the so-called French Humanist School of photography. Born on June 20, 1921 in Grenade-sur-Garonne in the south-west of France, his experience in the French...
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Emblematic narrative in Caro's Gli straccioni (with an Eye to Titian's Paul III).(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Italica; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...comedy was probably a prerequisite for employment. (3) Caro was the translator of Virgil's Aeneid, Aristotle's Rhetoric, and Longus' Daphnis and Cloe. He was an accomplished poet (his Canzoniere contains one hundred sonnets and rive canzoni) and comic writer...
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Greenwood Press.(The Rabelais Encyclopedia)(Coriolanus: A Guide to the Play)(Sylvia Plath)(Understanding the Literature of World War I)(Book Review)
Newspaper article from: Library Bookwatch; 8/1/2005; 399 words
; ...1-800-225-5800 www.greenwood.com Elizabeth Chesney Zegura edits The Rabelais Encyclopedia (0313310343, $95.00), about a French humanist who was one of the finest French writers of Renaissance times. Specialty college-level holdings on French literature or...
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(book reviews)
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 1/15/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...fresh source of illumination to fructify Christian philosophy and mysticism. Others such as Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), a French humanist, were driven by a desire to master arcane languages and saw in the study of Hebrew a way of recovering another ancient tradition...
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L'Amant resusite de la mort d'amour: en cinq livres (1558).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2003; ; 548 words
; ...is usefully given over to the life history of Denisot and his marginal but occasionally influential place in Renaissance French humanist circles. The text did not strike me as 'parfois illisible' (p. 45) but Duche-Gavet is right to stress the strange and often...
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(book review)
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 6/16/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...committed Calvinist. In The Death of Adam essays, Robinson seeks to renew interest in the ideas of the now scarcely known French humanist and theologian Jean Cauvin. She argues that Calvin, as he came to be known, had a large hand in shaping American goodness...
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Rappeneau, Jean-Paul
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Jean-Paul Writer and Director. Nationality: French. Born: Auxerre, 8 April 1932. Education: Attended Lyc é e Jacques-Amyot, Auxerre; Law Faculty, Paris. Family: Married Claude-Lise Corn é ly, 1971; two sons. Career: 1953 – 55...
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Sir Thomas North
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...his translation of Plutarch, entitled Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (1579), which he made from the French of Jacques Amyot. This work, ornate but vivid, was a source for many of Shakespeare's plays, among them Antony and Cleopatra and Julius...
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North, Sir Thomas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...Marcus Aurelius, The Morall Philosophie of Doni , from the Italian (1570), and Plutarch's Lives from the French of Jacques Amyot (1579), to which he made additions from other authors in 1595 and 1603. His Plutarch, written in a noble and vivid...
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Biography and Autobiography
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...whose Parallel Lives were popularized by Jacques Amyot's 1559 translation. Historians such as...whether in the form of funeral orations (Jacques-B é nigne Bossuet), religious lives...narrates is the author's own. Before Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions (1766 –...
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