Rémy Belleau

Rémy Belleau ( Rémi Belleau, * 1528 in Nogent -le- Rotrou, † March 6, 1577 in Paris) was a French poet of the Renaissance.

Had the protégé of the Abbé Christophe de Choiseul at the College of Boncourt lessons with Marc Antoine Muret and George Buchanan. He joined the Princely House of Guise and accompanied 1557 René II of Lorraine on a campaign to Naples. From 1563 to 1566 he lived in Joinville as advisor to the Guises and teacher of Charles I de Lorraine, duc d' Elbeuf.

In 1556 he published a translation of the Odes of Anacreon, which secured him a place in which was founded by Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay and other poets Group 1549 La Pléiade. Its inspired by the stay at Castle Guise collection of sonnets, hymns and love poems La Bergerie ( 1565) earned him the reputation of a natural painter. In Les Amours et nouveaux échanges of pierres précieuses he described in the style of medieval lapidaries exotic stones and their secret powers.

Appeared in 1577 which is based on Plautus ' Casina Verskomödie La Reconnu. In addition, Belleau also wrote Latin works, including the burlesque Poema macaronicum ( 1570). A complete edition of his poems appeared in Paris a year after his death. 1867 A. published a complete edition of his works governor.