Gilles d’Aurigny (also ''Daurigny'', surnamed ''Le

Pamphile Pamphile ( el, Παμφίλη), ''Panphyle, Plateae filia'' or ''Latoi filia'', was the daughter of Platea, or of Apollo (Latous),Longman, 1827 ''Classical Manual; or, a mythological, historical, and geographical commentary on Pope's Homer and D ...

'', d. 1553) was a French poet and lawyer. Born in

Beauvais Beauvais ( , ; pcd, Bieuvais) is a city and commune in northern France, and prefecture of the Oise département, in the Hauts-de-France region, north of Paris. The commune of Beauvais had a population of 56,020 , making it the most populous ...

, he served as attorney to the

Parlement A ''parlement'' (), under the French Ancien Régime, was a provincial appellate court of the Kingdom of France. In 1789, France had 13 parlements, the oldest and most important of which was the Parlement of Paris. While both the modern Fre ...

in Paris. He published a few legal treatises, such as ''Ordonnances des rois de France'' (1527, 1528) and ''Le Livre de police humaine'' (translation of a work by François Patrice, 1544). Little is known about his life. His best-known work is ''Le Tuteur d'amour'' of 1546, a poem in decasyllabic verse, at the time noted for its elegant style and rich imagination. Literary works: * ''...'' published in 1516, a Latin commentary on ''Songe du Verger'', a work attributed to Évrart de Trémaugon * ' (1528), published together with the work of the same title by

Martial d'Auvergne Martial d'Auvergne (Martial of Auvergne, Martial of Paris, 1420 – 13 May 1508) was a French poet. Originally from Auvergne, he served as notary at Châtelet, and later as attorney (''procureur'') for the Paris parlement. His most importan ...

in 1545 (reprinted several times until 1555). * ', 1545, contains a French translation of ''Heracles'' by

Lucian of Samosata Lucian of Samosata, '; la, Lucianus Samosatensis ( 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstiti ...

. * ' (1545) * ' (1546), reprinted in Lyon 1547

Paris 1553. * ', published posthumously 1557. This is a more developed version of his ''Généalogie des Dieux poétiques'' de 1545. Spiritual works: * ' (1549, reprinted 1551), French translation of biblical psalms, set to music by

Didier Lupi Second Didier Lupi Second (c.1520-after 1559) was a French composer, likely of Italian origin, based in Lyons. In 1548 he published ''Chansons Spirituelles'' with the poet Guéroult, the first such important publication of its kind by a Protestant. It incl ...

, later included in the Psautier de Paris along with works by

Clément Marot Clément Marot (23 November 1496 – 12 September 1544) was a French Renaissance poet. Biography Youth Marot was born at Cahors, the capital of the province of Quercy, some time during the winter of 1496–1497. His father, Jean Marot (c.&n ...

, Robert Brincel, Claude-Barthélémy Bernard and

Christophe Richer Christophe Richer de Thorigny ( it, Christoforo Riccherio) (1514?–1552/53) was valet de chambre to Francis I, a secretary to Cardinal Antoine Duprat, and a French ambassador of the 16th century. He was born in Thorigny-sur-Oreuse (to day, Yonne d ...

. * ' (1547), a lost work attributed d'Aurigny by Antoine Du Verdier (1585)

Music

Wilhelm Killmayer Wilhelm Killmayer (21 August 1927 – 20 August 2017) was a German composer of classical music, a conductor and an academic teacher of composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München from 1973 to 1992. He composed symphonies and son ...

set one of his poems in his song cycle ' in 1968.

References

* Abbé Goujet. ''Gilles d’Aurigny, dit le Pamphile''. In ''Bibliothèque françoise'', vol. XII (Paris, 1748), 428f. {{DEFAULTSORT:Aurigny, Gilles d' 1553 deaths Year of birth unknown French male writers People from Beauvais