Élie Vinet
Élie Vinet (1509–1587) was a French
Renaissance humanist
, known as a classical scholar, translator and antiquary.
Life
Vinet was born at Vinets, in the commune of
Louise de Savoie, and also Marguerite d'Angoulême, princess of France and future Queen of Navarre. He then went to Paris to master Greek and mathematics
.
In 1539
Collège de Guyenne, founded in 1533 in Bordeaux. Leaving aside some travels to Coimbra and Paris, he taught there until his death; during much of his time he was principal of the college. He formed its teaching and discipline.[1]
Joseph Juste Scaliger was one of his pupils, and he kept up a correspondence with numerous scholars which survives through letters exchanged with Pierre Daniel of Orléans.[2][3]
Works
In 1546, he published the first translation into French of the Eginhard. He worked on the Roman remains at Bordeaux, making attempts at reconstruction. He wrote
- L'Antiquité de Bordeaux et celle d'Angoulême (1567);
- L'Antiquité de Saintes et de Barbezieux (1568); and
- L'Antiquité de Bourdeaus et de Bourg présentée au Roi Charles neufiesme (1574).[4]
His many translations included Ausonius and Catullus. He commented on the De die natali of Censorinus.[5] His other interests covered science, in particular sundials, and he wrote a work La Manière de faire le solaire que communément on appelle cadrans.
Notes
- ^ (in French) Présentation par le lycée Élie Vinet
- ^ Écriture de l'humaniste bordelais Elie Vinet (1509-1587); Letter to Pierre Daniel Bern, Burgerbibliothek, cod. 141, f. 23
- ISBN 978-2-600-03069-4.
- ^ (in French) Élie Vinet
- ISBN 978-0-521-39748-3.
