François Béroalde de Verville

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François Béroalde de Verville (born April 27, 1556 in Paris , † between October 19 and October 26, 1626 in Tours ) was a French Renaissance writer, poet and intellectual.

Live and act

His father was the writer and theologian Mathieu Béroalde († 1576). His mother was née Marie Bletz, a niece of the humanist and scholar François Vatable . At the time of the events around Bartholomew's Night on August 23-24, 1572, his family fled to Geneva in 1573 . But Béroalde de Verville returned to Paris in 1581. During the Huguenot Wars , Béroalde de Verville swore from Calvinism and joined the factions around Henry III. from France. In 1589 he moved to Tours where he became canon, chanoine of the cathedral chapter of Saint Gatien . An office he held until his death.

Works (selection)

  • Souspirs amoureux. 1583
  • Les Appréhensions spirituelles, poèmes et autres œuvres philosophiques. 1583
  • De la sagesse. Jamet mettayer 1593
  • Les Aventures de Floride. 1594
  • La Pucelle d'Orléans. 1599
  • Serodocimasia. 1600
  • Le Cabinet de Minerve, auquel sont plusieurs singularités, etc. Rouen, 1601
  • Histoire véritable, ou le Voyage des Princes fortunez. C. de La Tour & P. ​​Chevalier, Paris 1610
  • Le Palais des curieux. 1612
  • Le Moyen de parvenir. 1617; German edition The way to success. Berlin 1914

literature

  • Michael Giordano, Janis L. Pallister: Béroalde de Verville: “Le moyen de parvenir”. Bibliographic Notes . Papers on French seventeenth century literature, Paris et al. 1981, ( Biblio 17. 2, ISSN  1434-6397 ), ( Papers on French seventeenth century literature Supplement 2).
  • Wilhelm Keller: François Béroalde sieur de Verville, a forgotten poet of the Renaissance . Ph. CW Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1925, ( Humanistic Progymnasium and Realschule Neustadt an der Aisch Annual Report 1925/26, Scientific Supplement, ZDB -ID 1500163-5 ).
  • Neil Kenny: The Palace of Secrets. Béroalde de Verville and Renaissance Conceptions of Knowledge . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1991, ISBN 0-19-815862-9 .
  • Herbert Reiche: Le Moyen de parvenir by Béroalde de Verville with special consideration of the source and author question. A contribution to French novelism . Roßteutscher, Coburg 1913, (Leipzig, Univ., Diss., 1913).
  • Elisabeth Vordemann: Source studies for the novel "Le Voyage des Princes Fortunez" by Béroalde de Verville . Schönhütte, Grone (Kr. Göttingen) 1933, (Göttingen, Univ., Diss., 1933).

Web links

Wikisource: François Béroalde de Verville  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ also written as Matthieu Brouard or Brouart
personal data
SURNAME Verville, François Béroalde de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Béroalde de Verville, François Vatable; Beroaldus, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Renaissance writer, poet, and intellectual
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1556
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH October 1626
Place of death Tours