Jean Dora , real name Jean Dinemandi ( fr. Jean Dorat, Jean Dinemandi , lat. Auratus ; April 3, 1508 , Limoges , France - November 1, 1588 , Paris , France) - French humanist , poet, member of the Pleiades .
| Jean Dora | |
|---|---|
| fr. Jean dorat | |
| Birth name | Jean dinemandi |
| Date of Birth | April 3, 1508 |
| Place of Birth | Limoges |
| Date of death | November 1, 1588 (aged 80) |
| Place of death | Paris |
| Citizenship |  France |
| Occupation | poet , teacher , translator |
| Years of creativity | from 1538 |
| Direction | Rebirth |
| Genre | ode , anthem , poem , paraphrase of the psalm , epigram |
| Language of Works | and |
Content
Biography
From an old noble family. Studied in Limoges and Paris, had an exceptional memory; taught in Rouen . In 1544 , he received the position of mentor of Jean Antoine de Baif , at the same time raising the young Pierre de Ronsard . Then he headed the Paris College of Coquere ( 1547 - 1567 ), where among his students, in addition to Ronsard and Baif, was Joachen du Belle . In 1560 he was appointed professor of Greek at the College of Royal Lecturers (the future College de France ). Until his death he bore the title of court poet - poeta regius . He taught the Greek language to the children of Henry II . The organizer of several court festivities under Charles IX and Henry III , made a description of one of them in 1573 .
Membership in the Pleiades
“It was as a mentor, who largely determined the character of the creativity of the future members of the Pleiades, who instilled in them a taste for ancient authors, Dora in 1585 was included by Ronsard in the group instead of Jacques Peletier, who died in 1582 ” [1] .
Creativity
Dora absolutely did not care about the publication or at least the conservation of his own works. His first surviving poem is considered a versioned message to the printer Robert Etienne ( 1538 ) [2] . In 1548 he published a translation of Aeschylus ’s tragedy "Chained Prometheus." In his odes he sang the victories of the French crown. In 1570 , after a serious illness that nearly cost him his life, he composed a pious ode to the Lord ( Ad Dominem ). The militant Catholic , in one of his odes, Dora glorified Bartholomew’s night and approved the reprisals against the Huguenots ; in the polemic fervor, Dora connects the integrity of the country with strict observance of all Catholic dogmas. He sought to combine the harmony of the verse in the ancient way with religious texts (including psalms ). "Enthusiastic admiration for antiquity was combined in Dora with a disregard for national French traditions" [3] . Written in 1575, the ode to Dora, dedicated to the writer and traveler Andre Teva , combines references to Virgil and Ovid with a hymn to human progress. In 1586, his students collected an incomplete collection of his works in Latin , Greek, and French ( Poemata ). The poetry of Dora was highly appreciated by Michel Montaigne , who ranked him among the greatest poets of his time, “the most skilled experts in their field” [4] .
Per Dora also has a number of philological comments, including the poetry of Pindar and Lycophron , as well as an allegorical interpretation of two songs of the Odyssey [5] .
Interesting Facts
- According to contemporaries, Dora was very interested in the “Prophecies” of Nostradamus and was engaged in their interpretation [6] .
- At a venerable age, Dora married a nineteen-year-old girl, much to the amazement of many of his acquaintances; when on the eve of the wedding one of them expressed his bewilderment to the poet, Dora succinctly replied: “Tomorrow she will become a woman” (according to Quintilian , these words were said in response to a similar rebuke about to marry the young Publius Cicero ) [7] .
Notes
- ↑ Staf I.K. Dora, Jean // Culture of the Renaissance. Encyclopedia. Volume 1. - M., ROSSPEN, 2007 .-- P. 598.
- ↑ Demerson G. L'humaniste et l'imprimeur (Fr.)
- ↑ Wipper Yu. B. Pleiades Poetry. - M., Science, 1976. - P.100.
- ↑ Experiments, Book 2, Chapter XVII
- ↑ Dorat J. Mythologicum ou Interprétation allégorique de L '"Odyssée" X-XII et de L' "Hymne à Aphrodite". - Genève: Droz, 2000 (French)
- ↑ Penza A. Nostradamus: poet, historian, prophet
- ↑ Quintilien. L'Institution oratoire. Livre VI, chapitre 3, par. 70 (fr.)
Literature
- Geneviève Demerson. Dorat et son temps: culture classique et présence au monde. - Clermont-Ferrand: Adosa, 1983. - ISBN 2-86639-050-4
- Henri Demay . Jean Dorat (1508-1588): L'Homère du Limousin, âme de la Pléïade, et poète des rois.— Paris: L'Harmattan, 1996. - ISBN 2-7384-4361-3
- Jean Dorat: poète humaniste de la Renaissance. Actes du Colloque international (Limoges, 6-8 juin 2001). Réunis par Christine de Buzon et Jean-Eudes Girot. - Geneve, Droz, 2007 . - ISBN 978-2-600-00927-0