Petrus Gyllius
Illustration — Title page of Petrus Gyllius' 1535 translation of Aelian. Gyllius or Gillius (or Pierre Gilles) (1490–1555) was a French natural scientist, topographer and translator. Gilles was born in Albi, southern France.
Also recorded as Petrus Ægidius
Petrus Gyllius
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- Petrus Gyllius was born in 1490. · Albi.
- Died
- Petrus Gyllius died in 1555. · Rome.
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- France
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- naturalist · translator · philosopher · geographer · scholar · writer
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- Latin
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Illustration — Title page of Petrus Gyllius' 1535 translation of Aelian. Gyllius or Gillius (or Pierre Gilles) (1490–1555) was a French natural scientist, topographer and translator. Gilles was born in Albi, southern France.
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A great traveller, he studied the Mediterranean and Orient, producing such works as De Topographia Constantinopoleos et de illius antiquitatibus libri IV, Cosmæ Indopleutes and De Bosphoro Thracio libri III, in which he provided the first written account of the Bosphorus, in Latin, as well as a book about the fish of the Mediterranean. Sent by King Francis I of France to Constantinople in 1544-47 to find ancient manuscripts, he discovered a manuscript of the geographical work of Dionysius of Byzantium and wrote a Latin paraphrase of it. In 1533 he also translated Claudius Aelianus. He died of malaria in Rome while accompanying his patron, Cardinal Georges d'Armagnac. It is stated that Guillaume-Joseph Grelot continued his work in the 17th-century, publishing his own book in 1680.
As Pierre Gilles, Petrus Gyllius plays a small but significant role in Pawn in Frankincense, the fourth volume in the historical fiction series, The Lymond Chronicles, by Dorothy Dunnett.
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1490
Petrus Gyllius born at Albi.
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Petrus Gyllius died at Rome.
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Petrus Gyllius was born in Albi.
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- 1.University of Toronto Press. Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. 1. 98. 2003. 978-0-8020-8577-1.
- 2.Freely, John. The Bosphorus. Redhouse. 1993. 9789754130621.
- 3.En la boutique de Pierre Rocolet. Relation nouvelle d'un voyage de Constantinople : enrichie de plans levez par l'auteur sur les lieux, & des figures de tout ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable dans cette ville. Internet Archive. 1680.
- 4.Dunnett, Dorothy. Pawn in frankincense. Vintage Books. 1997. 978-0679777465.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Gilles, Pierre. The antiquities of Constantinople. Italica Press. 1986. 978-0934977012.
- Harris, Jonathan. Constantinople : capital of Byzantium. Hambledon Continuum. 2009. 9780826430861.
- Kelly, Laurence. Istanbul : a traveller's companion. Constable. 1987. 9780094677302.
- Byrd, Kimberly. Pierre Gilles' Constantinople : a modern English translation with commentary. Italica Press. 2008. 978-0934977692.
- Gilles, Pierre. Pierre Gilles' Constantinople: The Latin Text. Italica Press. 2008. 978-1599101231.
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