François de Belleforest

François de Belle Forest (* 1530 in Comminges, † January 1, 1583 in Paris) was a French writer, poet and translator from the time of the Renaissance.

Belleforest are from poor backgrounds. His father was killed when he was seven years old. He spent some time at the court of Margaret of Navarre, traveled to Toulouse and Bordeaux ( where he made ​​the acquaintance of the humanist George Buchanan ), and then to Paris, where he comes into contact with young poets such as Pierre de Ronsard, Jean Antoine de Baif Jean Dorat, Remy Belleau, Antoine Verdier you and Odet de Turnèbe made ​​. 1568 he was historian of King Henry III. , But had to give up the post again because of inaccuracies in his description. He was forced then to push through as a writer and flooded Paris with works on various topics: cosmography, morals, literature and history, translations of Matteo Bandello, Giovanni Boccaccio, Antonio de Guevara, Francesco Guicciardini, Polydor Virgil, St. Cyprian, Sebastian Münster Achilles Tatius, Cicero and Demosthenes into French. He is also the author of the first French pastoral novel, La Pyrénée (or La Pastorale amoureuse ) ( 1571), based on Diana of Jorge de Montemayor. His Grandes Annales are a polemical tract against the lawyer and writer François Hotman ( 1524-1590 ). In total, he has published more than 50 books.

His successful work was probably his translation and adaptation of the seven-volume Histoires Tragiques (1564-1582) by Matteo Bandello, based on the work of Pierre Boaistuau. One of these stories is regarded as one of the sources for Shakespeare's Hamlet.

• Author
• Literature ( French)
• Literature (16th century)
• Translator
• Frenchman
• Born in 1530
• Died in 1583
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