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    Pierre Boaistuau, also known as Pierre Launay or Sieur de Launay (c. 1517, Nantes – 1566, Paris), was a French Renaissance humanist writer, author of a...
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    and Juliet. It is a translation and adaptation of a French story by Pierre Boaistuau, itself derived from an Italian novella by Matteo Bandello. The plot...
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    story was translated into French by Pierre Boaistuau in 1559 in the second volume of his Histoires Tragiques. Boaistuau adds much moralizing and sentiment...
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    Johannes Multivallis, Jacques Rueff, Conrad Lycosthenes, Caspar Hedio, Pierre Boaistuau, Fortunio Liceti, and Ambroise Paré. Landucci's physical description...
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    of Prodigies and Portents (1557) and the Histoires Prodigieuses by Pierre Boaistuau (1560), and designs by contemporary painters and printmakers, including...
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    or believe that invisible versions of familiars act as magical aides. Pierre A. Riffard proposed this definition and quotations A familiar spirit – (alter...
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    story was translated into French by Pierre Boaistuau in 1559 in the first volume of his Histoires Tragiques. Boaistuau adds much moralising and sentiment...
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    story was Pierre Boaistuau with his translation of Matteo Bandello's Novelli published in French as Histoires tragiques (1559). Boaistuau selected from...
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    tragiques" by the Italian Matteo Bandello, which built on the work of Pierre Boaistuau and eventually amounted to seven volumes (1564–1582). One of these...
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    print in 1558 under the title Histoires des amans fortunez edited by Pierre Boaistuau, who took considerable liberties with the original version; he used...
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  • Belleforest and Pierre Boaistuau Histoires tragiques - 7 vols. Belleforest's continuation of the translation of Bandello, published with Boaistuau's (1566–1583)...
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  • Italian of Bandello, Brooke's poem is derived from a French version by Pierre Boaistuau. The work was published by Richard Tottell. Bernard Garter published...
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    particular) were supplied by Bandello, probably through Belleforest and Pierre Boaistuau whose stories were later translated into English by William Paynter...
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  • (died 1549) – Heptaméron (Histoires des amans fortunez) (edited by Pierre Boaistuau) Giambattista della Porta – Magia Naturalis Thomas Watson – Holsome...
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  • de Thiard (1521–1605) Joachim du Bellay (1522–1560) Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585) Pierre Boaistuau (?–1566) Louise Labé (c.1526 – c.1565) Rémy Belleau...
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  • greatly enlarged translation of the sixth story in Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires tragiques (1559). Boaistuau claimed that he took the story directly from a...
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  • and Juliet, a narrative poem, translated from the French version by Pierre Boaistuau (Paris, 1559) of Matteo Bandello's story, "La sfortunata morte di dui...
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  • François de Belleforest and Pierre Boaistuau) and other "histoires tragiques" in the period. a Latin translation of Pierre Boaistuau's Bref Discours. (in French)...
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    in ed. Jean-Claude Arnould, Les histoires tragiques du XVIe siècle: Pierre Boaistuau et ses émules (Paris: Garnier), 191-207. Langer, U. (2021). Montaigne...
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    such as François de Belleforest, Joseph Scaliger, Bernard de Girard, Pierre Boaistuau, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Claude Roillet, and Jacques Grévin. One painting...
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  • Written in the French and Latin tongues by Peter Boaystuau (i.e., Pierre Boaistuau, surnamed Launay), and translated into English by John Alday.’ London...
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    (1387). The Canterbury Tales: The Tale of Melibeus. England. p. 2. Boaistuau, Pierre (1569). Certaine secrete wonders of nature, containing a descriptiõ...
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