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783: 711: 31: 423:, who was eight years his senior, now began to share his studies. Claude Binet tells how young Baïf, bred on Latin and Greek, smoothed out the tiresome beginnings of the Greek language for Ronsard, who in return initiated his companion into the mysteries of French versification. 503:(printed 1573), and other poets had made experiments in the same direction; however, in his specific attempt to recapture the ancient Greek and Latin ethical effect of poetry on its hearers, and in applying the metrical innovations to music, he created something entirely new. 426:
Baïf possessed an extraordinary facility, and the mass of his work has injured his reputation. Besides a number of volumes of short poems of an amorous or congratulatory kind, he translated or paraphrased various pieces from
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in high regard; in a neo-Latin poem addressed to Fauchet, Baïf called him 'Falcete docte, carminum ô tu candide / Iudex meorum' ('Learned Fauchet, candid judge of my poems').
726: 325: 463:, with the idea of establishing a closer union between music and poetry; his house became famous for the concerts which he gave, entertainments which 479:, who carried the Academie's ideas into the 17th century, soon joined the group, which remained secretive as to its intents and techniques. 376:, who was at that time French ambassador at Venice. Thanks, perhaps, to the surroundings of his childhood, he grew up an enthusiast for the 731: 227: 830: 499:. In the general idea of regulating versification by quantity, he was not a pioneer. Jacques de la Taille had written in 1562 the 318: 460: 242: 237: 835: 311: 547: 207: 145: 140: 135: 130: 125: 456: 120: 384:
in France. His father spared no pains to secure the best possible education for his son. The boy was taught
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says it was on everybody's lips. He held the historian of the French language
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Baïf's innovations also included a line of 15 syllables known as the
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When he was eleven years old he was put under the care of the famous
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was said to contain the whole argument of that celebrated work, and
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Baïf elaborated a system for regulating French versification by
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Maniére de faire des vers en français comme en grec et en Latin
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are turned into Frenchmen, the action taking place at
350:; 19 February 1532 – 19 September 1589) was a French 546:He also wrote a celebrated sonnet in praise of the 807: 510:. He also meditated reforms in French spelling. 554:, 1565 (published 1573), a free translation of 380:, and surpassed in zeal all the leaders of the 769:Histoire de la littérature française classique 687:"Denise Isabelle Roger Song Texts | LiederNet" 611:"Jean-Antoine de Baïf pronunciation in French" 319: 515:Etrenes de poezie Franzoeze an vers mezures 326: 312: 721: 658: 641: 471:frequently attended. Composers such as 675:. Paris: Mamert Patisson. pp. 17r. 670: 593:used Baïf's text in some of her songs. 550:. Baïf was the author of two comedies, 808: 784:Works by or about Jean-Antoine de Baïf 751:(5 vols., 1881–1890) of J. A. de Baïf. 761:(1874), with a valuable introduction. 673:Carminum Iani Antonii Baifii, liber I 491:, a system which came to be known as 345: 523:Amours, Jeux, Passetemps, et Poemes 13: 771:, 1904, bk. iii. pp. 398–422. 589:Twentieth century French composer 14: 852: 777: 759:Poésies choisies de J. 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