Pontus de Tyard
Pontus de Tyard , seigneur de Bissy-sur-Fley (also Pontus de Thiard ; * 1512 in Thyard Castle , Bissy-sur-Fley , Burgundy ; † September 23, 1605 in the castle of Bragny-sur-Saône ) was a French poet and Theologian.
Tyard was born a nobleman near Mâcon and studied philosophy and theology at the Collège de Coqueret in Paris , where he became a member of the La Pléiade group . He later entered the church service, eventually becoming canon of the Cathedral of Mâcon and in 1578 Bishop of Chalon-sur-Saône , an office he held until 1589, when he was expelled from the Catholic League . As a supporter of King Henry III. he then withdrew from public life.
His works, which earned him the reputation of one of the most important poets of the French Renaissance , were written in his younger years. Under the influence of Maurice Scève , he wrote the "Erreurs amoureuses" (1549–55), which were dedicated to an idealized lover and were based on Francesco Petrarca . Another collection of poems, “Livre des vers lyriques” (1555), shows the influence of Pierre de Ronsard . Tyard translated the "Dialoghi d'amore" by Jehuda ben Isaak Abravanel into French and published it in 1551. He later wrote numerous theological works. His “Discours philosophiques” (1587), which was influenced by Neo - Platonism , deal with poetry, music and astrology.
Text output
- Eva Kushner (Ed.): Pontus de Tyard: Œuvres complètes.
- Volume 1: Sylviane Bokdam et al. (Ed.): Œuvres poétiques. Champion, Paris 2004 (critical edition)
- Volume 3: Jean Céard (ed.): Mantice, ou Discours de la vérité de Divination par Astrology. Classiques Garnier, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-8124-2569-1
literature
- Heidi Marek: From suffering Ixion to comforted Narcissus. The ancient myth in the work of Pontus de Tyard. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-465-02780-5
Web links
- Biography ( Memento from November 28, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Literature by and about Pontus de Tyard in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Information on Pontus de Tyard in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tyard, Pontus de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tyard, Pontus de; Thiard, Pontus de; Tyard, Pontus de; seigneur de Bissy-sur-Fley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French poet and theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1512 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thyard Castle , Bissy-sur-Fley , Burgundy |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 23, 1605 |
| Place of death | Bragny-sur-Saône |