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Robert Gaguin (older spelling: ''Robert Guaguin''; winter of 1433/34 – May 22, 1501) was a noted French

Renaissance humanist Renaissance humanism was a revival in the study of classical antiquity, at first in Italy and then spreading across Western Europe in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. During the period, the term ''humanist'' ( it, umanista) referred to teache ...

and philosopher; he was minister general of the

Trinitarian Order The Trinitarians, formally known as the Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives ( la, Ordo Sanctissimae Trinitatis et Captivorum; abbreviated OSsT), is a mendicant order of the Catholic Church for men founded in Cerfroid, outside Pari ...

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He was born at Calonne-sur-la-Lys near

Béthune Béthune ( ; archaic and ''Bethwyn'' historically in English) is a city in northern France, sub-prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department. Geography Béthune is located in the former province of Artois. It is situated south-east of Calais, ...

in what was the county of Flanders and the

Duchy of Burgundy The Duchy of Burgundy (; la, Ducatus Burgundiae; french: Duché de Bourgogne, ) emerged in the 9th century as one of the successors of the ancient Kingdom of the Burgundians, which after its conquest in 532 had formed a constituent part of the ...

. He and his brother Christophe lost their father at an early age, and his mother placed him in the Trinitarian convent of Préavin, where he began his studies. He later attended the

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. He was an influential humanist who was a friend of

Publio Fausto Andrelini Publio Fausto Andrelini (c. 1462 – 25 February 1518) was an Italian humanist poet, an intimate friend of Erasmus in the 1490s, who spread the New Learning in France. He taught at the University of Paris as "professor of humanity" from 1489, ...

from

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, an associate of

Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (; ; English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus;''Erasmus'' was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae. ''Desiderius'' was an adopted additional name, which he used from 1496. The ''Roterodamus'' w ...

and a student of Gregory Tifernas.Encyclopædia Britannica, ''Humanism, The French humanists'', 2008 O.Ed. In his later years, he published a reformation of the statues of the

on August 30, 1497. He died in Paris on May 22, 1501, at the age of 67, and was interred at the church of the convent of the Trinitarians. He also translated several works from

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, including Caesar's ''

Gallic Wars The Gallic Wars were waged between 58 and 50 BC by the Roman general Julius Caesar against the peoples of Gaul (present-day France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland). Gallic, Germanic, and British tribes fought to defend their homel ...

'', which was published in

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in 1485 by

Antoine Vérard Antoine Vérard (active 1485–1512) was a late 15th-century and early 16th-century French publisher, bookmaker and bookseller. Life The colophon of a 1485 edition of the ''Catholicon abbreviatum'', the first French-Latin dictionary, which da ...

; works from the third decade of

Titus Livius Titus Livius (; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy ( ), was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled , covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional founding in ...

; and

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (24 February 1463 – 17 November 1494) was an Italian Renaissance nobleman and philosopher. He is famed for the events of 1486, when, at the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, ...

's ''Conseils prouffitables contre les ennuis et tribulations du monde'' in 1498. He translated Alain Chartier's ''Curial'' into Latin from Middle French in 1473.

Works

*''Epistole et orationes'' *''Rerum gallicarum annales'', History of France *Chronicle of the General Ministers of the Order of the Holy Trinity.

References

Bibliography

*Louis Thuasne (ed.), ''Roberti Gaguini Epistole et orationes'', Paris, Bibliothèque littéraire de la Renaissance, Émile Bouillon, 1903 *Sylvie Charrier, ''Recherches sur l'oeuvre latine en prose de Robert Gaguin (1433-1501)'', Paris, H. Champion, 1996. *Franck Collard, ''Un historien au travail à la fin du XVe siècle: Robert Gaguin'', Geneva, Droz (Travaux d'humanisme et Renaissance, CCCI), 1996.

External links

Robert Gaguin at the Encyclopédie Universalis
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