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robert_stagg: P.S. I ought to mention that there is quite a lot in this chapter about the poet Jean-Antoine de Baïf and his involvement in French academies and his place in 16th/17thC French literary criticism. But it might put you off reading the book…
PocketHistory: Baïf, Jean Antoine de. 1532-89. French Pléiade poet. New metrical forms. Founded Academy of Music and Poetry 1571, in Paris.
O_Longueville: The late Renaissance poet Jean Antoine de Baïf, one of the principal leaders of the French literary group ‘the Pléiade’, was born on the 19th of February 1532.
robert_stagg: Thought I’d reached the low point of my research when I had to wade through, er I mean translate, Giangiorgio Trissino’s mad reformed Italian orthography. I regret to inform you that I’m now dealing with Jean-Antoine de Baif’s mad reformed French orthography, which is even worse.
robert_stagg: Here are Jean-Antoine de Baif’s pen trails at the bottom of one page of the digitised BN MS. Fr. 19140, principally Baif’s quantitative translations of the psalms (probably written across the 1560s and 1570s). They look like very confused emojis.
