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Claude de Seyssel (''Italian:Claudio di Seyssel'') (died 1520) was a Savoyard jurist and humanist, now known for his political writings. He wrote ''La Grande Monarchie de France'' as a supporter of the French crown, in the person of
Louis XII
Louis XII (27 June 14621 January 1515), was King of France from 1498 to 1515 and King of Naples from 1501 to 1504. The son of Charles, Duke of Orléans, and Maria of Cleves, he succeeded his 2nd cousin once removed and brother in law at the tim ...
. Written around 1515, in French, it was published 1519; it supports hereditary monarchy
A hereditary monarchy is a form of government and succession of power in which the throne passes from one member of a ruling family to another member of the same family. A series of rulers from the same family would constitute a dynasty.
It is h ...
. A Latin translation ''De Republica Galliae'' was printed in 1548 in Strasbourg.
Biography
Seyssel was born inAix-les-Bains
Aix-les-Bains (, ; frp, Èx-los-Bens; la, Aquae Gratianae), locally simply Aix, is a commune in the southeastern French department of Savoie.
as the bastard son of Claude de Seyssell, marshall of Savoy. He studied law and theology in Chambéry
Chambéry (, , ; Arpitan: ''Chambèri'') is the prefecture of the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. The population of the commune of Chambéry was 58,917 as of 2019, while the population of the Chambér ...
, Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...
and Pavia
Pavia (, , , ; la, Ticinum; Medieval Latin: ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy in northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was the capit ...
. He graduated in 1485 and started teaching at the university of Turin. In 1499, he became a counsellor to King Louis XII of France
Louis XII (27 June 14621 January 1515), was King of France from 1498 to 1515 and King of Naples from 1501 to 1504. The son of Charles, Duke of Orléans, and Maria of Cleves, he succeeded his 2nd cousin once removed and brother in law at the tim ...
, and was charged with various embassies to Italy and England. He praised the French king in ''Histoire singuliere de Louis XII'' (''A Biography of Louis XII'') (1508) and in ''Les louanges de Louis XII'' (''In Praise of the King'')(1509). To extricate himself from the dispute opposing Louis XII to Pope Julius II
Pope Julius II ( la, Iulius II; it, Giulio II; born Giuliano della Rovere; 5 December 144321 February 1513) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1503 to his death in February 1513. Nicknamed the Warrior Pope or the ...
, he withdrew for a while from politics; in 1512, however, he went back to Rome to present his credentials to the new pope, Leo X
Pope Leo X ( it, Leone X; born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, 11 December 14751 December 1521) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 March 1513 to his death in December 1521.
Born into the prominent political an ...
. This was the apex of his diplomatic career. After the death of Louis XII in 1515, he gave up politics. The same year he was made bishop of Marseille.
His best-known work, written at the instigation of King Francis I of France
Francis I (french: François Ier; frm, Francoys; 12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his first cousin once ...
, was
''La grant monarchie de France'' (1518). He is considered as one of the best examples of French political thinking in the early 16th century. Seyssel had a high regard toward the French monarchy and constitution. He thought the power wielded by the monarch was both controlled and balanced, being limited by religion, existing laws and justice. He discussed "estates", or social class as well, dividing society into the nobility, a composite class of merchants and bureaucrats, and a third class of producers and lower-ranking merchants. His ideas were very influential in the 16th century. Later French thinkers adopted a different stance and distanced themselves from his beliefs.
He was made Archbishop of Turin
The Archdiocese of Turin ( la, Archidioecesis Taurinensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church in Italy."Archbishop Claudio di Seyssel"
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* ''Speculum feudorum'', Milano 1508.
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*''La Victoire du Roy contre les Véniciens'', Paris, Antonie Vérard, 1510.
*''La grant monarchie de France'', A Paris, pour Regnault, 1519.
* ''Adversus errores et sectam Valdensium disputationes'', Parisiis, in aedibus Reginaldi Chaudiere, 1520.
* Thucydide, ''L'Histoire de la guerre, qui fut entre les Peloponnesiens et Atheniens, translatee en langue Francoyse par feu messire Claude de Seyssel'', A Paris, en l'hostel de maistre Iosse Badius, 1527.
* Eusebe Cesarien, ''L'Histoire ecclesiastique translatee de Latin en Francois par messire Claude de Seysse'', A Paris, par maistre Geofroy Tory de Bourges, 1532.
* Appian Alexandrin, ''Des Guerres des Rommains livres XI, assavoir le Libyque, le Syrien, le Parthique, le Mithridatique, le Illyrien, le Celtique et cinq des Guerres civiles. Le tout traduict en Francoys par feu m. Claude de Seyssel'', A Lyon, pour Antoine Constantin, 1544.
* Trogue Pompee, ''Les Histoires uniuerselles, abbregees par Iustin historien, traslatees de Latin en Francois par Messire Claude de Seyssel'', A Paris, de l'Imprimerie de Michel de Vascosan, 1559.
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He also wrote on the Salic law
The Salic law ( or ; la, Lex salica), also called the was the ancient Frankish civil law code compiled around AD 500 by the first Frankish King, Clovis. The written text is in Latin and contains some of the earliest known instances of Old Du ...
, composed propaganda after the French victory over the Venetians, and worked as a translator of ancient historians, including Appianus of Alexandria.
Bibliography
* ''Speculum feudorum'', Milano 1508.
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*''La Victoire du Roy contre les Véniciens'', Paris, Antonie Vérard, 1510.
*''La grant monarchie de France'', A Paris, pour Regnault, 1519.
* ''Adversus errores et sectam Valdensium disputationes'', Parisiis, in aedibus Reginaldi Chaudiere, 1520.
* Thucydide, ''L'Histoire de la guerre, qui fut entre les Peloponnesiens et Atheniens, translatee en langue Francoyse par feu messire Claude de Seyssel'', A Paris, en l'hostel de maistre Iosse Badius, 1527.
* Eusebe Cesarien, ''L'Histoire ecclesiastique translatee de Latin en Francois par messire Claude de Seysse'', A Paris, par maistre Geofroy Tory de Bourges, 1532.
* Appian Alexandrin, ''Des Guerres des Rommains livres XI, assavoir le Libyque, le Syrien, le Parthique, le Mithridatique, le Illyrien, le Celtique et cinq des Guerres civiles. Le tout traduict en Francoys par feu m. Claude de Seyssel'', A Lyon, pour Antoine Constantin, 1544.
* Trogue Pompee, ''Les Histoires uniuerselles, abbregees par Iustin historien, traslatees de Latin en Francois par Messire Claude de Seyssel'', A Paris, de l'Imprimerie de Michel de Vascosan, 1559.
References
Further reading
* Rebecca Ard Boone, ''War, Domination, and the Monarchy of France: Claude de Seyssel and the Language of Politics in the Renaissance'' (Leiden, Brill, 2007) (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 156).External links
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