Bénigne Poissenot
Bénigne Poissenot (c.1550 – after 1586)[1] was a French writer of the Renaissance, known for two collections of short stories.
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- L'Esté contenant trois journées ou sont deduictes plusieurs histoires et propos recréantifs tenus par trois écoliers (Summer, containing three days during which are narrated several stories and amusing anecdotes told by three students) (Paris, 1583):[1] a frame tale (as used in Boccaccio's Decameron and Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron) narrating several stories and anecdotes by three wandering students.
- Nouvelles histoires tragiques (Paris, 1586): a collection of tragic stories 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.[1]
- a Latin translation of Pierre Boaistuau's Bref Discours.[1]
gollark: And the weather sensor.
gollark: Maybe hollow to save on costs.
gollark: It would be very funny if someone constructed an exact replica of the End island 100 blocks away from the actual End island.
gollark: umwn.
gollark: Nobody bothering to claim it since umwn.
References
- (in French) Simonin, Michel, ed. Dictionnaire des lettres françaises - Le XVIe siècle. Article "Poissenot (Bénigne)", pp.955-956, Paris: Fayard, 2001. ISBN 2-253-05663-4
External links
- (in French) Googlebooks Bénigne Poissenot in: Nouvelles françaises du XVIe siècle : images de la vie du temps, by Gabriel-A. Pérouse, Droz, 1977.
- (in French) Persée L'Esté, edition by Pérouse, Simonin and Baril, in Bulletin de l'Association d'étude sur l'humanisme, la réforme et la renaissance, 1987, volume 25, n°25, pp. 97–98.
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