Pierre Pithou

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Pierre Pithou

Pierre Pithou (born November 1, 1539 in Troyes , † November 1, 1596 in Nogent-sur-Seine ), also Petrus Pithoeus , was a French lawyer and scholar.

Life

Fragmenta quaedam Papiniani, Pauli, Ulpiani, Gaii, Modestini, aliorumque veterum iuris auctorum , 1573

After studying in Paris with Turnèbe , he was admitted to the Barreau bar in 1560 . At the beginning of the Second Religious War in 1567, Pithou, who was a Calvinist , withdrew to Sedan and later to Basel , where he edited the work of Otto von Freising , and only returned to France after the Peace of Saint-Germain was published . A short time later he accompanied Duke François de Montmorency on his mission to England . In mid-1572 he was back in France, shortly before Bartholomew's Night (August 24, 1572), which he barely survived. In the following year he followed the example of the future King Henry IV and renounced the Protestant faith.

Shortly after his accession to the throne, Henry IV took Pithou into his service and gave him various legal assignments. The most important work of his life was helping to create the satire Ménippée (1593), which damaged the cause of the Catholic League so much - the address of Sieur d'Aubray is usually ascribed to Pithou.

His valuable library - Pithou felt drawn to literature from a young age - was largely transferred to the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

Pithou wrote many legal and historical books and prepared editions of several ancient authors. Its first publication was Adversariorum subsectorum lib. II. (1565), but his most important contribution to historical science was the edition of the Leges Visigothorum (1579); In 1588 he published the Capitula of Charlemagne , Louis the Pious and Charles the Bald , and assisted his brother François in editing the Corpus juris canonici (1587). His Libertés de l'église gallicane (1594) was printed again in his Opera sacra juridica his orica miscellanea collecta (1609).

In 1596 he was the first in classical literature to introduce the world to the fables of Phaedrus ; he also published the Pervigilium Veneris (1587) and Juvenal and Persius (1585). The two editions of Petronius' Satyricon in 1577 and 1587 set standards.

Three Pithous brothers gained legal recognition: Jean , Nicolas and François Pithou .

Works

Satyricon , 1587
  • Charlemagne empereur d'Occident .
  • Généalogie des comtes héréditaires de Troyes et de Meaulx, ou de Champaigne et Brie, qui furent aussi Roys de Navarre .
  • Bref recueil des évêques de Troyes. (Signé: P. Pithoeus ... [1572].) .
  • Fragmenta quaedam Papiniani, Pauli, Ulpiani, Gaii, Modestini, aliorumque veterum iuris auctorum ( la ). Robert Etienne, Paris 1573.
  • Satire Ménippée , 1593.
    • Satyre Ménippée: de la vertu du Catholicon d'Espagne et de la tenue des estats de Paris , Éd. Charles Labitte, Œuvres & Valsery, Ressouvenances, 1841; 1997 ISBN 978-2-90442-973-6 .
    • Satyre Menippee de la Vertu du Catholicon d'Espagne et de la tenue des Estats de Paris , éd. critique de Martial Martin, Paris, H. Champion, 2007, "Textes de la Renaissance", n ° 117, ISBN 978-2-74531-484-0 .

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SURNAME Pithou, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petrus Pithoeus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lawyer and scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1539
PLACE OF BIRTH Troyes
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1596
Place of death Nogent-sur-Seine