Claude de Seyssel's Translations of Ancient Historians
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5119643 |
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| Authors | Rebecca Boone (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 561 |
| Publication date | 2000-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3654069 |
| OpenAlex | W2135163180, W4249701888 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
Through his seven translations of ancient history Claude de Seyssel played a major role in transmitting knowledge about antiquity to the French. Despite this fact he has received little attention from scholars of the French Renaissance. Perhaps the problem is that Seyssel does not seem to fit neatly into any category. He was neither French nor Italian but a Savoyard, not truly noble but the illegitimate son of a noble family, not truly a historian but a writer of history-based propaganda and a translator of histories. He began his career as a jurist, became a royal councillor, then a bishop, and in the end died as the Archbishop of Turin. Before his death Seyssel left numerous works, his most famous being a political treatise entitled La Monarchie de France, a work contemporaneous with The Prince by Machiavelli, with whom he shared a similar view of the political world. 1
Archbishop · Art · Art history · Italian Renaissance · Literature · Politics · The Renaissance · Classics · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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