Pierre d'Avity
Pierre d'Avity (born August 13, 1573 in Tournon ; † March 2, 1635 in Paris ) was Seigneur (also: Sieur) de Montmartin .
His parents were Antoine Davity and Marguerite de Lestang. He learned Greek, Latin, Italian and Spanish at the Jesuit College in his hometown. He broke off his law studies in Toulouse after a fatal self-defense against a fellow student. He then went to Paris , served in the military and rose to become captain of the infantry. With the governor Moritz von Nassau he took part in campaigns including 1606 in Holland (Rheinberg), then with the Count of Lesdiguières on the Italian front, also in the fight against the Huguenots under Richelieu and in 1630 as a relief for the city of Casale am Po, which in the Mantuan War of Succession was besieged by Marquis Spinola and the Spanish army.
He also had success as a writer . In 1599, 1601 in Paris and 1609 in Rouen, he brought out his Latin and French poems, letters and speeches under the title Les Travaux sans travail . 1611 in Lyon Panègyrica Mr. Desdiguières . He made an elegant prosaic translation of Ovid's Amores and threw it into the fire when a friend said he would corrupt the world more with his translation than the (pagan) poet did with the original. 1618 in Lyon Le Banissement des Folles Amours , with which he denounced slovenliness . 1624 in Paris Arret de mort exécute en la personne de Jean Giullot, Lyonais, architect, duement convaincu de l'horrible calomnie par lui imposé à ceux de La Rochelle and a German translation of part of his correspondence with his friend Montournois Wonderful discovery of a cruel plan so those of Roschellen want to be wrongly assigned: Described by a letter from the Lord of Montmartin to ... The Lords of Maison Neufue Montournois: itzo but transferred to the German as a warning . 1625 in Paris Etat certain de ceux de la Religion en France because of the religious battles under Louis XIII.
From 1613, parts of his main work Les Estats, empires, et principautéz du monde appeared: représentez par la description des pays, moeurs des habitans, richesses des provinces, les forces, le gouvernement, la religion, et les princes qui ont gouverné chacun estat; Avec l'origine de toutes les religions, et de tous les Chevaliers et Ordres militaires (also Archontologia cosmica ), which he improved until his death. He undertook historical and geographical research trips, in 1620 for eight months in Italy and in 1626 in Germany, on which he collected material for his Les Estates . Then the first complete edition appeared.
His wife was Madeleine Fassion Sainte Jalle. He left a son, Claude d'Avity, who wrote the dedication in the second edition of Les Estates . It was in print at the time of Pierre's death.
literature
- La vie de Pierre Davity. In the first volume of Jean Baptiste de Rocoles ' edition of Le Monde, ou la Description… 1660
- Allan H Gilbert: Pierre Davity; His "Geography" and Its Use by Milton . 1919
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenaref/avity.html
- ^ The biographical Dictionary of the Society for the diffusion of useful Knowledge; P. 324
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Avity, Pierre d ' |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Davity, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French nobleman, officer and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1573 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tournon , Languedoc , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1635 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |