Jean-Antoine de Baïf
Jean -Antoine de Baif (* February 19, 1532 in Venice, † September 19, 1589 in Paris) was a French poet. He was a friend of Pierre de Ronsard and belonged to the out of this group of poets of La Pléiade. He was the most famous of some contemporary writers who tried to introduce a syllable quantities of ancient Greek and Latin quantitative system modeled metrics in French literature.
Life
He was born the illegitimate son of the diplomat and humanist Lazare de Baif. His education was placed in the hands of the most famous thinkers of the period, notably by Jean Dorat, which he would later follow at the Collège de Coqueret, and Charles Estienne. Baif left an extensive work, Les Amours ( 1552/58 ), inspired by Virgil's Georgics Les Météores ( 1567), the passe-temps ( 1573) and Les Mimes, enseignements et proverbes ( 1581) who considered his best work be. But none of his works was really famous. Joachim du Bellay, another Pléiade poets, called him " le Docte, doctieur, doctime Baif " (Eng. about the learned, more learned, erudite example ).
Work
1570 founded Baif together with composer Joachim Thibault de Courville and the poet Pierre de Ronsard and under the royal patronage of Charles IX. at his home in the Paris suburb of St. Marceau, the Académie de musique et de poésie, which exerted a strong influence on contemporary poetry. Baif published 1574 Etrennes de poésie française in the art of vers mesures or vers mesures à l' antique, that is, in a metric that was based on the quantitierenden seal of the ancient languages. A fünfzehnsilbiger quantitierender verse was named after him vers Baïfin. His other works in quantitierender metric - a complete, an unfinished Psalter and several volumes of Chan sonnet - did not appear in print.
Under the influence of ancient literature European Renaissance authors had variously tried to introduce the quantitative system of metrics with their weighting of long and short syllables in languages and that are not always appropriated. Jacques de la Taille had 1562 Manière de faire comme en grec vers en français et en Latin written ( " guide to writing French verses as in Greek and Latin ", printed 1573). Baif but went so far that he invented a writing system to represent both the pronunciation and the metric of his verses in this endeavor.
However, he is not seen as a language reformers such as Louis Meigret, Jacques Peletier du Mans or Peter Ramus. He never tried to change the traditional spelling of the French, his own spelling remained the verses in quantitierender metric reserved. Although the literature review had mesures often not even dealt with the verse, they thought they were awkward; they remained largely unknown. Some composers, including Claude Le Jeune ou Jacques Mauduit, they set to music in the Musique mesurée. This influenced the music of the 17th century, sustainable, especially the word - sound ratio.
Baif worked for the theater stage the Eunuchus of Terence as L' eunuque ( 1565, printed 1573) and Miles Gloriosus of Plautus as Le Brave ( 1567); from the Greek, he translated the Antigone of Sophocles. Furthermore, come from him translations of Bion of Smyrna, musk, Theocritus, Anacreon, Catullus and Martial.