Gabriel Gilbert

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Gabriel Gilbert (* around 1620 in Paris ; † around 1680 there ) was a French poet.

Life

Gilbert, contemporary of Pierre Corneilles and Jean Racines and their forerunners in dramatic art, professed Protestantism and was for a time secretary to the Duchess of Rohan and from 1657 resident (authorized representative) of Queen Christine of Sweden at the French court.

We know of an Art de plaire after Ovid's Ars amandi and about 12 tragedies, including Marguerite de France (1640), Téléphonte (1642), Rodogune (1646) and Hypolite ou le garçon insensible (1647). The Rodogune is a counterpart to Corneille's simultaneous and eponymous piece, both allegorize the reign of Anna of Austria 1643–1651 by the Parthian Princess Rhodogune , and are each dedicated to the political opponents of that time, Prince Condé and Gaston d'Orleans. - In contrast to the heroine Corneilles, Gilbert's protagonist has dubious behavior. At the Téléphónte has Richelieu cooperated.

Web links

Wikisource: Gabriel Gilbert  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. Michael Wenzel: Heroine Gallery - Beauty Gallery. Studies on the genesis and function of female portrait galleries 1470–1715 . Dissertation Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, p. 86 , note 259 ( ub.uni-heidelberg.de [ PostScript ; accessed on January 6, 2009]).