Quelques poésies de circonstance de Publius Faustus Andrelinus(1462-1518) : traduction, édition et commentaire des poèmes Dē obitū Cārolī Octāvī, Panēgyricum ad Cārolum Octāvum, Dē pācificā successiōne et Epithalamium dē Claudiā et Franciscō

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Supervisors

Smeesters, Aline ; Kachuck, Aaron

Faculty

Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres

Degree label

Master [120] en langues et lettres anciennes, orientation classiques, à finalité approfondie

Abstract

enThis dissertation provides a critical edition, translation and commentary on four poems written by the Italian humanist Faustus Andrelinus (1462-1518), who was poet laureate to the Kings of France during the reigns of Charles VIII, Louis XII and François I. The four poems are the De obitu Caroli Octavi, the Panegyricum ad Carolum Octavum, the De pacifica successione and the Epithalamium de Claudia et Francisco. They all four have in common to be poems of circumstance and court poems, written in a style close to that of the Renaissance silves, whose popularity was revived by Poggio Bracciolini and Angelo Poliziano in the 15th century. As well as publishing these poems, my challenge is here to determine how Andrelinus articulated the literary forms he inherited and his own life path with the more general iconography of the reigns of the kings in whose service he took up his pen. Behind the commonplaces and expectations specific to the poetic genres he used, a certain evolution in the representation of sovereigns emerges, which coincides with the observations made by art historians and specialists in courtesan literature of the period. Indeed, while the figure of Charles VIII is marked by an imperialist iconography, that of Louis XII seems to be dominated by the image of a moderate King who listens to his subjects, while that of François I, whom our poet was only able to sketch briefly at the end of his life, already reveals the motifs of the knight-King worthy of Achilles. These texts, translated into French for the first time, are interesting sources for studying the staging of royal power and the conceptions of power that coexisted at the French court at the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.