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Ronsard's library, \u00e9pisode 1 : the greek poets<\/h1>\n

Pierre de Ronsard was an avid reader before becoming a prolific writer. He left the marks of his reading in his poems so we have an idea of what he would have had on his book shelves.<\/p>\n

The library is split into three categories: work by Greek poets<\/strong>\u00a0and authors from Antiquity, work by Italian writers and work by French writers.<\/p>\n

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\"\"A PARTIAL REBUILDING OF THIS LIBRARY<\/div>\n
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Prieur\u00e9 Saint-Cosme, Ronsard's House, Indre-et-Loire Council<\/a> monument, hopes to partly replicate his \"library\" in 2023 in his office and back room next to the dining room. Whilst we wait for the new display, here are two articles summing up historical research about the library and Ronsard's working methods.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, the poet's love for his books was unconditional:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Et te promets que si t\u00f4t que la bise<\/p>\n

Hors de son bois aura la feuille mise,<\/p>\n

Faisant des pr\u00e8s la verte robe choir,<\/p>\n

Que d\u2019un pied prompt je courrai pour revoir<\/p>\n

Mes compagnons, et mes livres, que j\u2019aime<\/p>\n

Beaucoup plus qu\u2019eux, que toi, ni que moi-m\u00eame\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

(Pierre de Ronsard,\u00a0Le Bocage<\/i>, 1554)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

a phantom library<\/div>\n

We don't know how many books Ronsard owned but he probably had a lot when he passed away in 1585. He inherited his uncle Jean de Ronsard's library<\/strong> (a vicar in the Mans diocese) in 1535 when he was 11 years old and added to it over the course of his lifetime. The library was mobile as the poet took it with him on his travels and could certainly fit into one or more trunks. So don't think of carefully arranged volumes packed onto a display... They would have been hide-bound books with the title or author's name handwritten on the front and laid horizontally on one or two \"shelves\".<\/p>\n

His library was soon dispersed here and there when he passed away. But there's no mention of his books in the two wills he left. What we do know is that Guillaume Colletet (poet, academic and Ronsard biographer) had \"some Italian books that Ronsard had read and contain countless handwritten notes and annotations\" in 1648.<\/p>\n

Only twenty or so books now definitely remain and have been proven to have belonged to Ronsard.<\/p>\n

Out of the three main categories listed in the introduction, let's focus on the work of Greek and Latin poets and prose writers (classical and late Antiquity)<\/p>\n

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inspiration through reading : greek poets and antiquity authors<\/div>\n

The work of Greek poets and authors from Antiquity form the body of this humanist library:<\/p>\n

There are Latin poets<\/strong>\u00a0(Horace, Ovid, Virgil) as well as Agricola, Cardan and Celsius, reflecting Ronsard's interest in science. There's also a volume by Lucretius,\u00a0De rerum natura libri VI<\/em> based on\u00a0On Nature<\/em>\u00a0by Epicurus.<\/p>\n

Greek publications<\/strong> include Latin-Greek dictionaries, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey<\/em>, Anacreon and his\u00a0romantic and feast poetry<\/strong> plus\u00a0Alexandra<\/em>\u00a0by Lycophron, also annotated by Ronsard's teacher, Dorat and Apollonios of Rhodes, an epic poet. Ronsard also had a copy of Homeric\u00a0Questions\u00a0<\/em>by Porphyry\u00a0of\u00a0Tyre, a Neoplatonic philosopher\u00a0and follower of Plotinus.<\/p>\n

Historians have found that Ronsard referred to a number of commentators on Latin and Greek authors: Macrobius and his\u00a0Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio<\/em>, John Tzetzes, a 12th century Byzantine poet who explained the \"subject\" of the Iliad and Odyssey in Homeric Allegories<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Find out more :<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Raymond Leb\u00e8gue, \u00ab\u00a0Ronsard au travail\u00a0\u00bb, in\u00a0Bulletin de l\u2019Association Guillaume Bud\u00e9<\/i>, Lettres d\u2019humanit\u00e9, n\u00b011, d\u00e9cembre 1952, pp. 72-92<\/p>\n

Fran\u00e7ois Rouget,\u00a0Ronsard et le Livre<\/i>, Tome 1 et 2, Gen\u00e8ve, Droz, 2010 et 2012.<\/p>\n

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Article by : Florence Caillet-Baraniak, Prieur\u00e9 Saint-Cosme assistant manager<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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