Isaac de Benserad ( October 15, 1612 , Lyon Laforet - October 19, 1691 , Chantilly ) - French poet at the court of Louis XIV [4] , playwright; contemporaries put on a par with Cornel for the nobility and purity of the language. Poet of the era of "zhemanstvo" , a favorite of the society of the Rambouillet hotel , author of elaborate sonnets and rondos , tragedies and elegant libretto (in verse) for ballets [5] .
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Editions
- 3 Memory
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Biography
Born in Normandy. In his youth, Isaac de Benserad began to study theology at the Sorbonne . He gained fame with his pompous syllables written, mostly erotic content [4] . He was carried away by the theater, and the success of his first tragedy Cleopatra, presented at the Burgundy Hotel Theater in 1636, completely forced him to abandon the idea of a church career. For a long time, Benserad, in collaboration with composer Lambert , and later with Lully , creates 23 court ballet (the main author of the ballet at that time was just a poet). In adulthood he composed didactic rondos and fables. Since 1674, Isaac Benserad was a member of the French Academy [4] .
His legacy includes epigrams, stanzas , sonnets , madrigals , rondos , enigmas, epitaphs, variations on the themes of Ovid 's Metamorphosis (1676) and Aesop 's fables (1678), tragedies and comedies (including Iphis et Iante, 1674, by “ Metamorphosis, ” where female homosexuality is openly mentioned for the first time in French drama).
Editions
- “Collected Works” (Oeuvres, 2 vol., 1697) [5]
Memory
Vladislav Khodasevich dedicated to Benserad one of his comic poems of 1935 ( "... Oh friend! Two hours in a row / I bow: Benserad ..." )
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 International Music Score Library Project - 2006.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Benserad // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ 1 2 Benserad // Small Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 4 volumes - St. Petersburg. 1907-1909.