Isaac de Benserade

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Isaac de Benserade

Isaac de Benserade (* 1612 / 1613 in Lyons-la-Forêt , † 19th October 1691 in Paris ) was a French poet in the court of the Sun King Louis XIV.

Benserade studied theology at the Sorbonne . He was a typical representative of the court culture of his time. The very popular favorite was patronized by Richelieu , Mazarin and Louis XIV. He wrote accompanying poems for the royal ballet performances in Palace of Versailles by the composer Jean-Baptiste Lully . Together with his rival Vincent Voiture , he was the main representative of the then flourishing preciousness .

Works

  • 1636 Cléopâtre
  • 1637 La Mort d'Achille et la Dispute de ses armes
  • 1637 Gustaphe ou l'Heureuse Ambition
  • 1637 Iphis et Iante
  • 1640 Méléagre
  • 1647 Ballet de Cassandre
  • 1648 Le Sonnet de Job
  • 1651 Ballet des Fêtes de Bacchus
  • 1653 Ballet de la Nuit
  • 1654 Ballet des Proverbes
  • 1654 Ballet des Noces de Pélée et de Thétis
  • 1654 Ballet du Temps
  • 1655 Ballet des Plaisirs
  • 1655 Grand Ballet des Bienvenus
  • 1656 Ballet de Psyché
  • 1657 Ballet de l'Amour malade
  • 1658 Ballet royal d'Alcidiane
  • 1659 Ballet de la Raillerie
  • 1661 Ballet royal de l'Impatience
  • 1661 Ballet des Saisons
  • 1663 Ballet des Arts
  • 1664 Ballet des Amours déguisés
  • 1664 Les Plaisirs de l'île enchantée
  • 1665 Ballet royal de la Naissance de Vénus
  • 1666 Ballet des Muses
  • 1669 Ballet royal de Flore
  • 1676 Métamorphoses d'Ovide en rondeaux
  • 1678 Fables d'Ésope en quatrains
  • 1681 Ballet du Triomphe de l'Amour
  • 1682 Labyrinte de Versailles / author of the prose: Charles Perrault . Author of the verses: Isaac de Benserade. Engraver: W. Swidde. - Amsteldam: Visscher, 1682. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Stances

bibliography

  • Isaac de Benserade: Ballets pour Louis XIV. 2 volumes. Présentés et annotés by Marie-Claude Canova-Green. Société de Littératures Classiques et al., Toulouse et al. 1997, ISBN 2-908728-17-6 .
  • Marie-Françoise Christout, Le ballet de cour au XVIIe siècle. = The ballet de cour in the 17th century. Minkoff, Geneva 1987, ISBN 2-8266-0812-6 .
  • Charles I. Silin: Benserade and his "Ballets de Cour" (= The Johns Hopkins Studies in Romance Literatures and Languages. Extra Vol. 15, ISSN  0095-5973 ). The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore MD 1940 (Also: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ., Phil. Fak., Diss., 1934).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Yves Lecouturier: Célèbres de Normandie . Orep Editions, Cully 2007, ISBN 978-2-915762-13-6 , pp. 11 . (French)

Web links

Wikisource: Isaac de Benserade  - Sources and full texts (French)
personal data
SURNAME Benserade, Isaac de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1612 or 1613
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyons-la-Forêt
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1691
Place of death Paris