LEADER 04009nam 22005655 450 001 9910149427703321 005 20230618050627.0 010 $a1-4426-5389-2 010 $a1-4426-3836-2 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442653894 035 $a(CKB)3710000000929692 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4730366 035 $a(DE-B1597)479307 035 $a(OCoLC)992489876 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442653894 035 $a(OCoLC)1380687161 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_107555 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000929692 100 $a20170630d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aEmery Bigot $eSeventeenth-Century French Humanist /$fLeonard Doucette 210 1$aToronto : $cUniversity of Toronto Press, $d[2017] 210 4$d©1970 215 $a1 online resource (222 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aUniversity of Toronto Romance Series 311 $a1-4426-3125-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tPreface -- $tIntroductory Note -- $tContents -- $tONE. Biography -- $tTWO. Bigot's Works -- $tTHREE. Bigot's Contribution to Others' Works -- $tConclusion -- $tAppendix -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aEmery Bigot's life spans the most brilliant years of seventeenth-century France. He left some six hundred letters addressed to the four corners of literary Europe; among his correspondents, acquaintances, and friends were men of the stature of Jean Chapelain, Nicolaus Heinsius, Charles du Cange, Richard Simon, John Milton, and Gilles Ménage. He travelled widely and was for some forty years at the very centre pf a firmly established, smoothly functioning network of mutual assistance and scholarly information that linked the countries of western Europe. From Uppsala to Venice, from Vienna to Oxford, Leiden, London: a network which quite naturally considered Paris its centre, and whose members represented every interest, very segment of intellectual society. Bigot was also the creator of what was perhaps the most important private library of his era. Yet today he is almost unknown, and his correspondence, scattered widely, has not been examined thoroughly since his death. This detailed biography and critical study is based on Bigot's letters and on other unpublished materials in France, Italy, Holland, Denmark, and England. Although much effort has been directed towards research on the more prominent contemporaries of Bigot, he himself - better known to the scholars of his period than a Racine, a La Fontaine, or a Molière - has gone unappreciated. Professor Doucette's book shows that Bigot represents an essential and seriously neglected side of French and European humanistic studies in the seventeenth century. Bigot's role as an outstanding classical scholar and bibliographic expert, his publications and projects for publications, his correspondence, and what is perhaps the most important facet of his activity, his collaboration with other authors in seventeenth-century Europe, all receive full and intensive coverage. This book holds special interest for scholars in several disciplines, especially historians of French literature and civilization, classicists, philologists, bibliophiles and bibliographers, and historians of religion. 410 0$aUniversity of Toronto romance series ;$v16. 606 $aLatin philology$xStudy and teaching$zFrance$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aHumanists$zFrance$vBiography 607 $aFrance$xIntellectual life$y17th century 608 $aHistory. 608 $aBiographies. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLatin philology$xStudy and teaching$xHistory 615 0$aHumanists 676 $a001.2/094 700 $aDoucette$b Leonard$0899168 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910149427703321 996 $aEmery Bigot$92008848 997 $aUNINA