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Jean De La Ceppède
Jean de La Ceppède (c. 1550 – 1623) was a French nobility, French nobleman, judge, and French poetry, poet from Aix-en-Provence. La Ceppède was a Christian poetry, Christian poet and wrote French Alexandrine, Alexandrine sonnets in Middle French. He is best known for authoring ''Les Théorèmes sur le Sacré Mystère de Nostre Rédemption'', a sonnet sequence, sequence of 515 sonnets, published in two volumes in 1613 and 1622. Taken together, the sonnets are an exegesis on the Passion (Christianity), passion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, Resurrection of Jesus Christ and take a heuristic approach. Early life Jean de La Ceppède was born circa 1550 in Marseille. According to Keith Bosley, the La Ceppède family was of Spanish people, Spanish heritage and may have been related to Saint Teresa of Avila, who was born a Cepeda.Bosley (1983), page 5. He received a Doctorate in Law. Career La Ceppède became an Advisor to the Parliament of Aix-en-Provence on 22 October 1578. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern France, it is located on the coast of the Gulf of Lion, part of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river. Its inhabitants are called ''Marseillais''. Marseille is the second most populous city in France, with 870,731 inhabitants in 2019 (Jan. census) over a municipal territory of . Together with its suburbs and exurbs, the Marseille metropolitan area, which extends over , had a population of 1,873,270 at the Jan. 2019 census, the third most populated in France after those of Paris and Lyon. The cities of Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, and 90 suburban municipalities have formed since 2016 the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis, an Indirect election, indirectly elected Métropole, metropolitan authority now in charge of wider metropo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Bosley
Keith Anthony Bosley (16 September 1937 – 24 June 2018) was a British poet and translator. Bosley was born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, and grew up in Maidenhead, Berkshire. He was educated at Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow (1949 – 1956) and the Universities of Paris, Caen, and Reading (1956 – 1960), where he read French. In 1961 he began working for the BBC, mainly as an announcer and newsreader on the World Service, but the work for which he perhaps best known is as a poet and translator. In 1978 he was awarded the Finnish State Prize for Translators. In 1980 he became a Corresponding Member of the Finnish Literature Society, and a year later he undertook a Middle East lecture tour for the BBC and the British Council. Other accolades include first prizes in the British Comparative Literature Association's translation competition in 1982 and, in the same year, in the English Goethe Society's translation competition. In 1991 he was made a Knight, First Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
