Florent Chrestien
Florent Chrestien (January 26, 1541 – October 3, 1596) was a French satirist and Latin poet.Chrestien was the son of Guillaume Chrestien, an eminent French physician and writer on physiology, was born at Orléans. A pupil of Henri Estienne, the Hellenist, at an early age he was appointed tutor to Henry of Navarre, afterwards Henry IV, who made him his librarian. Brought up as a Calvinist, he became a convert to Catholicism. He died on 3 October 1596 in Vendôme.
Chrestien was the author of many good translations from the Greek into Latin verse, amongst others, of versions of the ''Hero and Leander'' attributed to Musaeus, and of many epigrams from the Greek Anthology. In his translations into French, among which are remarked those of George Buchanan's ''Jephtha'' (1567), and of Oppian's ''De Venatione'' (1575), he is not so happy, being rather to be praised for fidelity to his original than for excellence of style. His principal claim to a place among memorable satirists is as one of the authors of the ''Satire Ménippée'', the famous pasquinade in the interest of his old pupil, Henry IV, in which the harangue put into the mouth of cardinal de Pelve is usually attributed to him. Provided by Wikipedia
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11by Oppian, active 2nd centuryOther Authors: “...Chrestien, Florent, 1541-1596...”
Published 1575
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12by AeschylusOther Authors: “...Chrestien, Florent, 1541-1596...”
Published 1585
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13by Pibrac, Guy du Faur, seigneur de, 1529-1584Other Authors: “...Chrestien, Florent, 1541-1596...”
Published 1584
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14by Buchanan, George, 1506-1582Other Authors: “...Chrestien, Florent, 1541-1596...”
Published 1587
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15by AristophanesOther Authors: “...Chrestien, Florent, 1541-1596...”
Published 1589
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16by Casaubon, Isaac, 1559-1614Other Authors: “...Chrestien, Florent, 1541-1596...”
Published 1605
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17by EuripidesOther Authors: “...Chrestien, Florent, 1541-1596...”
Published 1605
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18by Grévin, Jacques, 1538?-1570Other Authors: “...Chrestien, Florent, 1541-1596...”
Published 1564
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20Published 1608Other Authors: “...Chrestien, Florent, 1541-1596...”
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