Hactenus arma ducum. The Reception of Vergil by a French Prostestant Poet (Louis Des Masures, c. 1510-1574)
(2012) Vergil and Renaissance Culture — Location: Mantova (13.October.2012)
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- The French and Neolatin poet Louis Des Masures (Tournai, c. 1515 - Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, 1574), well known for his translation of the Aeneid for François I, was at the heart of political and religious conflicts of his time. First, accusations of treason after the king’s death forced him into exile. After meeting Calvin and Théodore de Bèze, he passed to the Reformation, and came back in France during the Wars of Religion. Then he became a pastor, professing his new faith in secret. All these vicissitudes obviously influenced Des Masures’ work and had a major poetical relevance: as a protestant and messianic poet, how to deal with classical authors ? Has the secular and pagan inspiration to be rejected ? Finally, what about Virgil ? (On this last point, we will consider several perspectives and different works of Des Masures, among which an unpublished Latin epics, Borbonias).
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Minet, M. (2012). Hactenus arma ducum. The Reception of Vergil by a French Prostestant Poet (Louis Des Masures, c. 1510-1574). Vergil and Renaissance Culture, Mantova. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/161456