Jean Antoine De Baif
Who is Jean Antoine De Baif
Jean Antoine de Baïf (French: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan də baif]; 19 February 1532 – 19 September 1589) was a French poet and member of the Pléiade.
Life
Jean Antoine de Baïf was born in Venice, the natural son of the scholar Lazare de Baïf, who was at that time French ambassador at Venice. Thanks, perhaps, to the surroundings of his childhood, he grew up an enthusiast for the fine arts, and surpassed in zeal all the leaders of the Renaissance in France. His father spared no pains to secure the best possible education for his son. The boy was taught Latin by Charles Estienne, and Greek by Ange Vergèce, the Cretan scholar and calligraphist who designed Greek types for Francis I.
When he was eleven years old he was put under the care of the famous Jean Daurat...
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Jean Antoine De Baif Poems
- Or Voy-je Bien Qu'il Faut Vivre En Servage
Or voy-je bien qu'il faut vivre en servage,
A dieu ma liberté:
Dans les liens de l'amoureux cordage
Je demeure arresté.
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- Ces Yeux Ces Yeux, Doux Larrons De Mon Ame
Ces yeux ces yeux, doux larrons de mon ame,
M'ont eblouy de leur belle splendeur,
Astres fataux qui de malheur ou d'heur
Me vont comblant au plaisir de madame.
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- Tu Me Desplais, Quoy Que Belle Tu Soys
Tu me desplais, quoy que belle tu soys,
Tu me desplais, croy moy, je le confesse,
Et, bien qu'a moy tu desplaises, sans cesse
Je suy contreint ton amour toutesfoys.
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- Depuis Qu'amour Ma Poitrine Recuit
Depuis qu'Amour ma poitrine recuit,
Bouillante au feu de sa plus chaude braise
De mille ennuis en immortel malaise,
Dont maint souci dans moy l'un l'autre suit:
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- D'un Chapeau Qui Fleuronne
D'un chapeau qui fleuronne
La rose on ne couronne,
Tes atours en ce point
Ne te reparent point :
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Comments about Jean Antoine De Baif
- Robert_stagg: p.s. i ought to mention that there is quite a lot in this chapter about the poet jean-antoine de baïf and his involvement in french academies and his place in 16th/17thc french literary criticism. but it might put you off reading the book…
- Pockethistory: baïf, jean antoine de. 1532-89. french pléiade poet. new metrical forms. founded academy of music and poetry 1571, in paris.
- O_longueville: the late renaissance poet jean antoine de baïf, one of the principal leaders of the french literary group ‘the pléiade’, was born on the 19th of february 1532.
- Robert_stagg: thought i’d reached the low point of my research when i had to wade through, er i mean translate, giangiorgio trissino’s mad reformed italian orthography. i regret to inform you that i’m now dealing with jean-antoine de baif’s mad reformed french orthography, which is even worse.
- Robert_stagg: here are jean-antoine de baif’s pen trails at the bottom of one page of the digitised bn ms. fr. 19140, principally baif’s quantitative translations of the psalms (probably written across the 1560s and 1570s). they look like very confused emojis.
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