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Grivoiserie, lapsus et jeux de mots dans l'oeuvre de jeunesse de Théodore de Bèze

2016

Theodore de Bèze is a french neo-latin author, i. e. a Renaissance author writing in latin, who composed a collection of poems entitled ‘The Juuenilia’ in his young years, thanks to which he earned the admiration of his contemporaries. Edited for the first time in 1548, this collection included Elegies and Epigrams among others poetic genres. Theodore de Bèze was a catholic at the time, but at the end of the same year he converted himself to Protestantism and moved to Lausanne where he became a Greek teacher. In order to fit this change of faith, he had to disavow his work, which included saucy and pagan poems.In the two following poems we will study an Elegy and an Epigram from the 1548 ‘J…