Jacques de Lavardin (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

1575–1585) was a lord in Plessis-Bourrot, squire and noble of the

king of France France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the Kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions. Classical French historiography usually regards Clovis I () as the first ...

, known for his translation of two works in French: the Celestine from

Fernando de Rojas Fernando de Rojas (c. 1465/73, in La Puebla de Montalbán, Toledo, Spain – April 1541, in Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, Spain) was a Spanish author and dramatist, known for his only surviving work, '' La Celestina'' (originally titled ''Trag ...

and the ''Historia de vita et rebus gestis Scanderbegi'', a chronic of the Kingdom of

Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg , reign = 28 November 1443 – 17 January 1468 , predecessor = Gjon Kastrioti , successor = Gjon Kastrioti II , spouse = Donika Arianiti , issue = Gjon Kastrioti II , royal house = Kastrioti , father ...

from

Marin Barleti Marin Barleti ( la, Marinus Barletius, it, Marino Barlezio; – ) was a historian and Catholic priest from Shkodër who was a humanist. He is considered the first Albanian historian because of his 1504 eyewitness account of the 1478 siege of ...

. De Lavardin was active during 1575 and 1585. He is the brother of the theologue and translator Jean de Lavardin, abbey of l'Estoile.

Translation of Marin Barleti

His translation of the ''Historia de vita et rebus gestis Scanderbegi'' (in French Histoire de Georges Castriot, surnommé Scanderberg, roy d'Albanie'') appeared in 1576. The sixth edition of 1621 is due to

Nicolas Faret Nicolas Faret (Bourg-en-Bresse, c.1596 – 8 September 1646) was a French statesman, writer, scholar and translator. He translated Eutropius's ''Roman History'' (Paris, 1621, in-18). References * Gustave Vapereau Louis Gustave Vapereau (4 Apr ...

, who added a chronology in which were included the events from

Mehmed II Mehmed II ( ota, محمد ثانى, translit=Meḥmed-i s̱ānī; tr, II. Mehmed, ; 30 March 14323 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror ( ota, ابو الفتح, Ebū'l-fetḥ, lit=the Father of Conquest, links=no; tr, Fâtih Su ...

to Osman II.

Translation of Fernando de Rojas

A first translation in French from the Celestine had already been published from Galliot du Pré (printed from Nicolas Cousteau) in 1527. The adaptation of Jacques de Levardin in 1577 was republished several times."La Celestine' in the French translation of 1578 by Jacques de Lavardin (Text B)"
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