Jean-Jacques Boissard
Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528 – 30 October 1602) was an antiquary and Neo-Latin poet. • Illustration — Jean-Jacques Boissard c. 1598 by Theodore de Bry
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Jean-Jacques Boissard
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- Born
- 1528. · Besançon.
- Died
- 1602. · Metz.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- poet, writer, draftsperson, artist, art collector, scholar and archaeologist.
- Education
- University of Padua.
- Languages
- Latin, Middle French and French.
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Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528 – 30 October 1602) was an antiquary and Neo-Latin poet. • Illustration — Jean-Jacques Boissard c. 1598 by Theodore de Bry
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Life
Life
He was born at Besançon and educated at Leuven; but he secretly left the seminary there, and travelled through (Germany) to Italy, where he remained several years and was often reduced to poverty. His time in Italy gave him a taste for antiquities, and he formed a collection of artefacts from Rome and its vicinity. He then visited the islands of Greece, but illness obliged him to return to Rome. Here he completed his collection, and returned to France; but not being permitted to profess publicly the Protestant religion, which he had embraced some time before, he withdrew to Metz, where he remained until his death.
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Works
He provided text and drawings for books by Robert Boissard, Theodor de Bry, Jacques Granthomme and Alexandre Vallée. Major works are: • Poemata (1574) • Emblemata (1584) • Icones Virorum Illustrium (1597) • Vitae et Icones Sultanorum Turcicorum, etc. (1597) • Theatrum Vitae Humanae (1596) • Romanae urbis topographia et antiquitates (1597–1602) • De Divinatione et Magicis Praestigiis (1605) • Habitus Variarum Orbis Gentium (1581), ornamented with seventy illuminated figures.
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1528
Jean-Jacques Boissard was born in 1528 at Besançon.
1602
Jean-Jacques Boissard died in 1602 at Metz.
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Besançon.
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- 1.Cefalônia, é a maior da Ilhas Jônicas, com 42 quilômetros de comprimento.
- 2.Zante, uma das Ilhas Jônicas, dista 13 quilômetros da costa da Moreia, tem 33 quilômetros de comprimento e 17 quilômetros de largura.
- 3.Moreia, é o nome moderno para a antiga península de Peloponeso, que constitui a metade do sul da Grécia e se une ao continente através do Istmo de Corinto, com menos de 6 km de largura.
- 4.Hugo Babet (1474-1556), amigo de Erasmo de Rotterdam, foi poeta, helenista, filólogo, humanista francês. Deu aulas de gramática, retórica, dialética, hebraico e latim na Universidade de Lovaina.
- 5.O Quirinal é uma das sete colinas de Roma, localizada mais ao norte. Na antiguidade clássica era na verdade chamada de Collis Quirinalis (colina) ao invés de mons (monte).
- 6.Alexander Chalmers - Dicitonary of Biographies.
- 7.Les Les monuments de l'histoire de France - Alexandre Vallée.
- 8.Matthäus Merian, O Velho (1593-1650) (* Basileia, 22 de Setembro de 1593 - † Langenschwalbach, 19 de Junho de 1650), foi gravador, impressor e publicador alemão de origem suíça.
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