Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas

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Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas

Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas (short Guillaume du Bartas , Occitan Guilhèm de Sallusti deu Bartàs ; * 1544 in Monfort , † August 28, 1590 in Mauvezin ) was a French writer of the Baroque .

life and work

Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas grew up in what is now the Département Gers , studied law at the University of Toulouse and lived from 1567 on the inherited estate and castle Le Bartas in today's village of Saint-Georges, canton Gimone-Arrats , east of Mauvezin. As a Huguenot (who also had friends among the Catholics) he was sponsored by Jeanne d'Albret , whose court was in Nérac (60 kilometers away). From 1585 he belonged to the advisory group of the later King Heinrich IV , for whom he was ambassador to Jacob VI in 1587 . traveled to Scotland and Denmark. He died at the age of 45. In Auch , the Saluste du Bartas square is named after him, where his bust has been erected since 1890. In Mauvezin and Monfort streets bear his name.

Du Bartas published the verses Judith , Uranie and Le Triomphe de la foi under the title La Muse Chrétienne in 1574 and triumphed himself in 1578 with La Semaine (The Week of Creation), followed by the Seconde Semaine in 1584 . This "encyclopaedic poem", a "colossal" work (Lestringant), which placed him alongside Ronsard , saw countless editions and translations throughout Europe, and inspired Torquato Tasso (for his Sette giornate del mondo creato ), the Dutch poet Joost van den Vondel and especially John Milton , whose Paradise Lost culminated in the creation of Joseph Haydn . In France, due to the profound change in taste from the baroque to the classic , it was abandoned to ridicule from 1630 and was forgotten for three hundred years until the latest research reopened its baroque linguistic power and recognized the text as modern.

Goethe about you Bartas

Goethe already expressed himself about the tension between du Bartas' greatness and the contempt he felt at the time in France:

“The French have a poet Du Bartas whom they no longer call at all or only with contempt. He lived from 1544 to 1590, was a soldier and man of the world and wrote countless Alexandrians . We Germans, who look at the conditions of that nation from a different point of view, feel moved to smile when we see all the elements of French poetry in his works, whose title praises him as the prince of French poets, admittedly in a strange mixture, find together. He dealt with important, significant, broad subjects, such as the seven days of creation, where he found the opportunity to market a naive view of the world and diverse knowledge that he had acquired in an active life in an illustrative, narrative, descriptive, didactic way bring to. These very seriously intended poems therefore all resemble good-natured parodies and, because of their colorful reputation, are extremely hated by the French at the current height of their imagined culture, instead of being a French author, like the Elector of Mainz the Wheel, of the seven daily works of Du Bartas should be symbolized in the coat of arms. But so that we do not appear indefinite and paradoxical in an aphoristic treatment of our essays, we ask whether the first forty verses of the seventh day of creation by Du Bartas are not excellent, whether they deserve to be in every French collection of samples, whether they are Can't stand the comparison with many a new product that is worth considering? German connoisseurs will agree with us and thank us for the attention we have drawn to this work. The French, however, will continue to fail to recognize what is good and excellent in it because of the miraculous features that occur in them. "

Works

Critical Editions

  • Urban Tigner Holmes, Jr. , John Coriden Lyons and Robert White Linker (Eds.): The Works of Guillaume de Salluste, Sieur du Bartas. A critical edition . 3 vols., Chapel Hill 1934-1940; 2 vols., Geneva 1977.
  • André Baïche (Ed.): La Judit . Association des Publications de la Fac. des Lettres et Sciences Humaine, Toulouse 1971 (220 + 319 pages).
  • Kurt Reichenberger (Ed.): La Sepmaine ou Création du monde. Critical text of the Geneva edition of 1581 . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1963 (supplements to the journal for Romance philology 107).
  • La Sepmaine, ou, Création du monde . Edited by Sophie Arnaud-Seigle, Yvonne Bellenger, Denis Bjaï, Véronique Ferrer, Sabine Lardon and Jean-Claude Ternaux. 3 vols. Classiques Garnier, Paris 2011 (Textes de la Renaissance 173-175).
    • 1. La Sepmaine, ou, Création du monde
    • 2. L'Indice de Simon Goulart
    • 3. Annotations de Pantaleon Thevenin

Translations (selection)

German

  • Tobias Hübner : Wilhelms v. Saluste Herr Von Barta's rhyming poems called The Old Fathers . Cöthen: Prince. Print shop 1619.
  • (ibid.) The other week William of Saluste . Cöthen: Prince. Print shop 1622
  • (ibid.) The First and Other Week William of Saluste . (Complete edition of the du Bartas translation), posthumously ed. v. Prince Ludwig of Anhalt-Köthen a. Diederich from Werder. Cöthen: Prince. Print shop 1640.

Italian

  • Ferrante Guisoni (also: Guisone): La divina settimana . G. Metaieri, Tours 1592. (Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 61, 2004)

Latin

  • Gabriel de Lerm († 1599): Domini Guillelmi Salustii Bartassii, poetarum nostri saeculi facile principis, Hebdomas . Geneva 1596.

English

  • Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618): Bartas. is deuine vveekes and vvorkes translated & dedicated to the Kings most excellent Maiestie , by Iosvah Sylvester. At London, printed by Humfrey Lovvnes, 1605 (Gainesville, Fla., Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1965).

Spanish

  • Joseph de Càceres: Los siete dias de la semana sobre la criacion del mundo . Alberto Boumeester, Amsterdam 1612

Dutch

  • Zacharias Heyns (1566-1630): De weke. Inhoudende de scheppinghe des werelts . Zwolle 1616.

Danish

  • Anders Arrebo (1587–1637): Hexaëmeron rhythmico-danicum . Copenhagen 1661 (free translation).

literature

  • Kurt Reichenberger: The Creation Week of Du Bartas. La sepmaine de Saluste Sieur Du Bartas. 2. Topics and Sources of Sepmaine . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1963 (supplements to the magazine for Romance philology 108).
  • James Dauphiné: Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas. Poète scientifique . Les Belles lettres, Paris 1983.
  • Yvonne Bellenger: You Bartas et ses divines Semaines . SEDES, Paris 1993.
  • Yvonne Bellenger (Ed.): You Bartas . In: Oeuvres & critiques 29.2, 2004.
  • La "Sepmaine" de Du Bartas, ses lecteurs et la science du temps. In homage to Yvonne Bellenger. Actes du colloque international d'Orléans (12-13 June 2014) , ed. by Denis Bjaï. Droz, Geneva 2015.

Manual information

  • Kurt Reichenberger , in: Major works of French literature. Individual presentations and interpretations , ed. by Irene Schwendemann, Munich, Kindler, 1976, p. 87.
  • Yvonne Bellenger, in: Laffont-Bompiani. Le nouveau dictionnaire des oeuvres de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Auteurs , Paris 1994, pp. 937-938 (Bouquins series).
  • Frank Lestringant, "Du Bartas, Guillaume", in: Dictionnaire des écrivains de langue française , ed. by Jean-Pierre Beaumarchais, Daniel Couty and Alain Rey, Paris, Larousse, 2001, pp. 537-539.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/diderot/rameaus/chap02.html sv taste
personal data
SURNAME You Bartas, Guillaume
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Du Bartas, Guillaume de Saluste; Bartas, you Guillaume; Sallusti deu Bartàs, Guilhèm de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Baroque writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1544
PLACE OF BIRTH Monfort
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1590
Place of death Mauvezin