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    François de Belleforest (1530 – 1 January 1583) was a prolific French author, poet and translator of the Renaissance. He was born in Samatan (actual department...
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  • in later histories by François de Belleforest and André Thévet. Her story has been retold many times since 1560. Marguerite de La Rocque's place and date...
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    and then published in French in 1570 by the 16th-century scholar François de Belleforest. It has a number of plot elements and major characters in common...
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    Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    in different languages including Latin, French (translated by François de Belleforest), Italian and Czech. Only extracts have been translated into English...
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  • Historiae Danicae. It also incorporates extra plot elements added by François de Belleforest in his Histoires tragiques, published in 1576, and furthermore...
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    story was translated into French in 1570 by François de Belleforest in his Histoires Tragiques. Belleforest embellished Saxo's text substantially, almost...
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    Mantua's Novelle ("Tales"), possibly the translation into French by François de Belleforest, which dealt with the tribulations of Sir Timbreo and his betrothed...
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    of Danish History written by Saxo Grammaticus, popularised by François de Belleforest as L'histoire tragique d'Hamlet, and appearing in the English translation...
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  • mentions of Johannes Scolnus. He quoted a source from 1570 by François de Belleforest, a source from 1599 by Wytfliet, and another from 1671 which claimed...
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    gorey stories and changed them for his means. He was followed by François de Belleforest who adapted 12 more stories for the new edition in 1570. Those...
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  • and 1494-1553) François de Belleforest (1530–1 January 1583) François Béroalde de Verville (27 April 1556 – 19–26 October 1626) Nicolas de Montreux (c....
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  • Clitophon et de Leucippe (translated by François de Belleforest, 1568) François de Belleforest La Pyrénée (or La Pastorale amoureuse) (1571) -- Jorge de Montemayor...
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  • Royal. 1575 – In his Cosmographie universelle de tout le monde, historiographer François de Belleforest was the first to use the form Montréal with reference...
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    Montreal (redirect from Ville de Montréal)
    region. However, the Commission de toponymie du Québec disputes this explanation. Historiographer François de Belleforest was the first to use the form...
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    of the Royal Chamber in 1571, and a sister Marguerite. The poet François de Belleforest dedicated a poem to the family in 1560 called Chasse d'amour. There...
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    part of the known world. A dispute arose with a collaborator, François de Belleforest, who left Thevet's employ to publish his own Cosmographie in 1572...
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    along the base level. The Rouffignac cave was mentioned in 1575 by François de Belleforest. In his Cosmographie universelle he cites “paintings and animal...
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  • (died 1644) John Beaumont, English poet (died 1627) January 1 – François de Belleforest, French poet and translator (born 1530) January 5 – Juan Maldonado...
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  • Pasquier (1529–1615) Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563) Claude Fauchet (1530–1601) Jean Bodin (1530–1596) François de Belleforest (1530–1583) Henri Estienne...
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    IX François de Belleforest (translated from Matteo Bandello) – Histoires tragiques begins publication) Diego de Landa – Relación de las cosas de Yucatán...
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    Scandinavia, the story of Amleth or Hamlet was popularized through François de Belleforest's French Histoires tragiques (Paris, Chez Jean Hupeau, 1572, Fueil...
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  • French political philosopher (died 1596) François de Belleforest, French poet and translator (died 1582) Pey de Garros, Occitan poet writing in Gascon (died...
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  • in the vogue of the tragic tales of Bandello (as translated by François de Belleforest and Pierre Boaistuau) and other "histoires tragiques" in the period...
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    literati of his time, such as François de Belleforest, Joseph Scaliger, Bernard de Girard, Pierre Boaistuau, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Claude Roillet, and Jacques...
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  • narrative poem "The High-Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire" (c.1883). François de Belleforest – La Pyrénée (or La Pastorale amoureuse) (the first French "pastoral...
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    Philibert de Vienne. The first complete French translation was published in 1568 by François de Belleforest. In 2005 a Portuguese translation, Os Amores de Leucipe...
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  • de Ercilla y Zúñiga – La Araucana, part 1 Petar Zoranić – Planine 1571 Ali Sher Bengali – Sharḥ Nuzhat al-Arwāḥ (in Persian) François de Belleforest –...
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    literati of his time, such as François de Belleforest, Joseph Scaliger, Bernard de Girard, Nicolas Denisot, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Claude Roillet, and Jacques...
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  • was included by Matteo Bandello in his 1554 Novelle collection. François de Belleforest translated Bandello's account into French in 1565, which in turn...
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    Painter's The Palace of Pleasure (1567), which was a translation of François de Belleforest's French adaptation of Matteo Bandello's Novelle (1554). Bandello...
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