Octavien de Saint-Gelais

Octavien de Saint- Gelais (* 1468 in Cognac, † 1502 in Vars, Charente) was a French cleric, poet and translator of the Renaissance.

Biography

Octavien de Saint- Gelais studied theology in Paris at the Collège Sainte -Barbe, at the Sorbonne and the Collège de Navarre. He became a member of the magnificent court of Charles VIII (1470-1498) in Amboise. At the age of 25 years forced him an incurable disease to abandon his previously pleasure-loving lifestyle. He entered the clergy. Charles VIII in 1494 gave him the diocese of Angoulême. As Bishop Ocatvien was considered soon, because he reformed monastic rules, caring for the poor and had renovated the churches. In addition, he devoted himself to poetry. Octavien de Saint- Gelais helped himself unceremoniously from the poetic forms of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Among his works were ballads, and rondeaux Moritate, where he used a variety of combinations of rhymes and poetic meters. A special passion he had for the poets of antiquity. His French translation of the Aeneid was Louis XII. (1462-1515) put forward. Furthermore, he transferred the Heroides of Ovid. 1502 a plague epidemic forced him to leave his bishopric. He retired in the village of Vars in the Charente, where he died shortly afterwards.

Octavien de Saint- Gelais fabulierfreudige, vigorous poetry also influenced poets of the next generation, such as Clément Marot ( 1495-1544 ).

His nephew was the poet Mellin de Saint- Gelais (ca. 1491-1558 ).

Source

Works (selection)

  • Aeneas Sylvius: Eurialus and Lucretia. Besides fragments of the Anthitus - translation ( "Historia de Duo bus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia "). Niemeyer, Halle 1914. LXIII, 189 pp.
  • Aeneas Sylvius: Oeuvres érotiques. " Cinthia ". Historia de Duo bus amantibus avec " L' ystoire de Eurialus et Lucresse ". " De remedio amoris " ( Miroir du moyen age ). Brepols, Turnhout 2003. 236, 4 S, ISBN 2-503-51309-3.
  • Publius Ovidius Naso ( Author), Dagmar Thoss (ed.): Heroides. (Austrian National Library, Vienna, Codex 2624 ) ( codices illuminati medii aevi, 1). Lengenfelder, Munich, 1986, ISBN 3-89219-001-1 (5 microfiches )
  • Publius Vergilius Maro: Les oeuvres de Virgille. Avec les hystoires mises en son chascune lieu. New durchges. Ed Jacques le Messier, Paris 1532 ( along with Guillaume Michel ).
  • Joseph A. James (eds. ): Le séjour d' honneur (North Carolina studies in the Romance languages ​​and literatures; 181). University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC 1977. 308 pp., ISBN 84-399-6102-2.
  • Mary B. Winn (ed. ): La chasse d' amours. Poème publié en 1509 ( text littéraires français; 322). Droz, Geneva 1984, LXXVIII, 454 p. -
  • Le d' honneur Vergier. Nouvelle Ment impr. à Paris; de l' entreprince et voyage de Naples; Auquel est comprins comment le roy Charles VIII de ce nom a baniere desployee passa de journée en journée et repassa depuis Lyon. Johan Janot, Paris around 1515 arc A II -. AA IV
Cognac, France Charles VIII of France Château d'Amboise Rondeau (forme fixe) Classical antiquity Louis XII of France Mellin de Saint-Gelais Integrated Authority File
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