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  • Chapter 3 - Plutarch in Early French Renaissance Public Humanism: Geoffroy Tory and Guillaume Budé

  • from Part II - Plutarch in Renaissance France and England
  • Rebecca Kingston, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    Plutarch's Prism
    Published online:
    22 September 2022
    Print publication:
    29 September 2022, pp 95-147

  • Summary

    Part II begins with Chapters 3 and 4 offering a study of the first printed vernacular translations of Plutarch’s work in French with special attention to political thought. After an initial discussion of the 1530 translation of Plutarch’s essay “Precepts of Statecraft” by the Royal Printer Geoffroy Tory (c. 1480–1533), a translation which invokes the French term of la chose publique in relation to Plutarch’s idea of politics, I explore Plutarch translations in the French context by scholars who went on to draft important treatises in political theory, namely Claude de Seyssel (1450–1520) and Guillaume Budé (1467–1540). I also explore some of Antoine du Saix’s (c. 1504–1579) translations of Erasmus’s (1466–1536) Latin translations of Plutarch’s Apophthegmata (or Sayings of Kings and Commanders), here shedding light on an important dialogue among these thinkers regarding the specific and unique nature of public life in reference to Plutarch’s work.