Lazare de Baïf
Lazare de Baïf (1496–1547) was a French diplomat and humanist. His natural son, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, was born in Venice, while Lazare was French ambassador there. He published a translation of the Electra of Sophocles in 1537, and afterwards a version of the Hecuba.
Lazare de Baïf
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- Lazare de Baïf was born in 1496. · La Flèche.
- Died
- Lazare de Baïf died in 1547. · Paris.
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- France
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- linguist · diplomat · poet · translator · philosopher · classical scholar · humanist
- Languages
- Latin · Middle French
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Lazare de Baïf (1496–1547) was a French diplomat and humanist. His natural son, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, was born in Venice, while Lazare was French ambassador there. He published a translation of the Electra of Sophocles in 1537, and afterwards a version of the Hecuba.
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He was an elegant writer of Latin verse, and is commended by Joachim du Bellay as having introduced certain valuable words into the French language.
Jacques Dubois is recorded as having studied under Lazare de Baïf. the recorded working language is Latin and Middle French.
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Lazare de Baïf died at Paris.
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