Guillaume Colletet

Colletet Square in Villepreux

Guillaume Colletet (born March 12, 1598 in Paris , † February 19, 1659 ibid) was a French writer, Romance writer and literary historian.

Life

From 1620 Colletet was in literary circles such as the Académie Piat Maucours and around Marie de Gournay , where the literary legacy of the 16th century was not broken, but Ronsard was still valid. In 1623 he was temporarily banned from Paris for satirical writings. From 1625 he belonged to a group of writers called " Illustres Bergers " ( Illustres Bergers ), which can be regarded as the preliminary stage of the Académie française . In 1635 he was one of the founding members of the academy. He received a pension from Richelieu , which was canceled in 1650. He was one of the five authors ( Les cinq auteurs ) who wrote two plays together at Richelieu's behest.

As a poet, according to Jean-Pierre Chauveau's judgment, Colletet was “very honorable mediocrity” ( très honorable médiocrité ). His main achievement was a poetics published in 1658 and an extensive French literary history with the title Vies des poètes français ("French poets' life") that remained a manuscript throughout his life . The manuscript burned in 1871. Since parts of it had already been copied, some fragments could also be saved and the latest research (especially in Italy) dealt intensively with Colletet, an extensive printed corpus of his work is still available today.

Works

Poetics and own poetry

• (with Pierre Corneille , Jean de Rotrou , François Le Métel de Boisrobert and Claude de L'Estoile ) Les cinq auteurs, La comédie des Tuileries. L'Aveugle de Smyrne , Paris, Augustin Courbé, 1638; ed. by François Lasserre, Paris, Champion, 2008.
• Cyminde ou les deux victimes. Tragicomédie , Paris, Augustin Courbé, 1642, 1650.
• L'art poëtique où il est traité de l'épigramme, du sonnet, du poème bucolique, de l'églogue, de la pastorale, et de l'idylle, de la poésie morale et sententieuse , 1658; Geneva, Slatkine, 1971.
  • L'art poétique 1.Traitté de l'épigramme et traitté du sonnet , ed. by Pasquale Aniel Jannini , Geneva, Droz, 1965.
• Le Parnasse français ou l'École des muses, dans laquelle sont enseignées toutes les règles qui concernent la poësie française , Paris, C. de Sercy, 1664; Geneva, Slatkine, 1971.
• (Ed.) Étienne Tabourot , Les bigarrures du Seigneur des Accords avec les Apophtegmes du Sieur Gaulard et les Escraignes dijonnoises , revus sur les éditions originales de 1583, 1584, 1585 et 1588, augmentés de notes de divers commentateurs et précés de notes de divers commentateurs, Brussels 1866; Geneva, Slatkine, 1969.
• Poésies choisies , ed. by Pasquale Aniel Jannini, Paris, Nizet, 1968.

Author biographies

Independent publication

• Vies d ' Octavien de Saint-Gelais , Mellin de Saint-Gelais , Marguerite d'Angoulesme , Jean de La Peruse , poëtes angoumoisins , ed. by Ernest Gellibert des Seguins (1825–1868), 2 vols., Angoulême, Aubry, 1863–1866; Geneva, Slatkine, 1970.
• Vies des poètes gascons , ed. by Philippe Tamizey de Larroque , Paris 1866, Geneva, Slatkine, 1970.
• François Rabelais . Extrait des vies des poètes francais , ed. by Pierre Gustave Brunet (1805-1896), Geneva, J. Gay, 1867; Geneva, Slatkine, 1970.
• Notices biographiques sur les trois Marot , ed. by Georges Guiffrey (1827-1887), undated, 1871; Geneva, Slatkine, 1970.
• Vies des poètes bordelais et périgourdins , ed. by Philippe Tamizey de Larroque, Paris 1873; Geneva, Slatkine, 1969.
• Vie d'Eustorg de Beaulieu , ed. by Philippe Tamizey de Larroque, Paris, H. Champion, 1878; Geneva, Slatkine, 1970.
• Pierre de Ronsard , ed. by Franca Bevilacqua Caldari, Paris, Nizet, 1983.
• Le origini della storiografia letteraria francese nelle "Vies des poëtes françois" by Guillaume Colletet , ed. by Pasquale Aniel Jannini, Fasano, Schena, 1985-1989.
  • Jean de Meung , ed. by Valeria Pompejano Natoli, 1985.
  • Jacques Grévin , ed. by Franca Bevilacqua Caldari, 1988.
  • Maurice Scève , ed. by Ada Speranza Armani, 1988.
• Vies des poètes tourangeaux , ed. by Lenita Locey, Michael Locey and Janis L. Pallister, Seattle, Papers on French seventeenth century literature, 1989 (the edition is based on a transcription by Jules-Antoine Taschereau, 1801–1874).
• Vie d' Etienne Dolet , hrs. by Michel Magnien, Geneva, Droz, 1992.

Dependent publication

• Pernette du Guillet , Poésies , ed. by Jean Louis Antoine Coste (1784–1851) and Antoine Péricaud (1782–1867), Lyon, Perrin, 1830; Geneva, Slatkine, 1970 (contains biography by Colletet).
• Pierre de Cornu (1558–1623), Oeuvres poétiques , ed. by Prosper Blanchemain (1816–1879), Grenoble, Ravanat, 1870; Geneva, Slatkine, 1969 (contains biography by Colletet).
• François Villon , Oeuvres poétiques , ed. by Paul Lacroix, Paris, Librairie des bibliophiles, 1877; Paris, Nouvelle librairie de France, 1999 (contains biography by Colletet).
• Amadis Jamyn (1540–1593), Œuvres poétiques , ed. by Jacques Charles Brunet , 2 vol., Paris, Willem, 1878; Geneva, Slatkine, 1967 (contains biography by Colletet).
• Anatole de Charmasse (1835–1932), François Perrin poète franc̜ais du XVIe siècle , Autun, Dejussieu, 1887; Geneva, Slatkine, 1971 (contains a biography by Colletet, copied by Charmasse before the annihilation).

translation

• La Doctrine chrestienne de St Augustin , Paris, Camusat, 1638 ( Augustine of Hippo , De doctrina christiana ).

literature

• Pasquale Aniel Jannini (* 1921), Verso il tempo della ragione. Studi e ricerche su Guillaume Colletet , Milan / Pavia, Viscontea, 1965; Fasano, Schena, 1989.
• Jean-Charles Payen and Jean-Pierre Chauveau, La poésie des origines à 1715 , Paris, Armand Colin, 1968, pp. 148–149.
• Valeria Pompejano Natoli, Verso una biografia di Guillaume Colletet , Fasano, Schena, 1989.
• Alain Génetiot (* 1965), “Guillaume Colletet”, in: Laffont Bompiani. Le nouveau dictionnaire des oeuvres de tous les temps et de tous les pays , Vol. 1, Paris 1994, p. 710 (Bouquins series).
• Sabine Biedma (* 1979), Une production polygraphique, creuset d'expérimentation critique? L '"Œuvre" de Guillaume Colletet (1616-1658) , Thèse, University of Toulouse 2, 2012.

Web links

• Literature by and about Guillaume Colletet in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)