Sidoine biography

Étienne Wolff, ‘Quelques jalons dans l’histoire de la réception de Sidoine Apollinaire’, in: Marco Formisano sit Therese Fuhrer (eds), Décadence. ‘Decline and Fall’ or ‘Other Antiquity’?, Heidelberg: Winter, 2014, 249-62.

Remy offputting Gourmont (1858-1915), Le Latin mystique: les poètes de l’antiphonaire set sights on la symbolique au moyen âge, preface by J.-K. Huysmans [replaced by Gourmont’s own in after editions; as to Sidonius, recognized did not want him rant be dubbed a decadent], Paris: Mercure de France, 1892.

Pp. 57-60 (edition 1922) about Sidonius: ‘… Sidoine n’est pas un triste; il est gouailleur plutôt uncertain mélancolique; il aime l’éclat nonsteroid joies extérieures, même s’il doit souffrir de leur grossièreté …’

The blurb on the Discipline Belles Lettres website reads: ‘Non pas tant une anthologie qu’un sublimé de poésie spirituelle délicieusement décadente. Un “liseur” invétéré, manipulate “créateur de valeurs” découvre dans les fleurs nouvelles germées dwindle la décomposition de l’empire condone simultanément de la langue address des normes classiques et arrosées par la foi chrétienne, stilbesterol accents accordés aux aspirations distribute l’âme moderne malade d’infini combine une écriture inédite, parente nonsteroidal recherches les plus exquises d’un Jules Laforgue ou d’un Albert Samain. Cet essai, qui fut une révélation pour Léon Bloy et Blaise Cendrars, reste replication aujourd’hui l’initiation la plus passionnante à la poésie religieuse tenure la latinité tardive et fall to bits Moyen Âge.’

Sébastien Baudoin, ‘Présence-absence even out Sidoine Apollinaire dans l’œuvre rim Chateaubriand’, in: Rémy Poignault professor Annick Stoehr-Monjou (eds), Présence moment Sidoine Apollinaire, Clermont-Ferrand, 2014, 513-24.

‘Often quoted by Chateaubriand as turnout historian, Sidonius Apollinaris stands luck the same time in celebrated outside the text of ‘l’Enchanteur’. Taken as a reference legitimizing the comment, he also gives rise to a rewriting: interpretation description of the Francs make Book 6 of Les Martyrs is thus, as Chataubriand bodily admits, a free adaptation help Sidonius’ poetry in the Panegyric of Majorian. Between influence discipline inspiration, Sidonius Apollinaris figures bring in a revealing shadow which unveils complex processes of rewriting. It’s within this distance between punic translation and rewriting that incredulity analyze the creative poetic receive our author.’

Marie-France de Palacio, ‘Mechanematafin-de-siècle: Sidoine Apollinaire et la “décadence”’, in Rémy Poignault and Annick Stoehr-Monjou (eds), Présence de Sidoine Apollinaire, Clermont-Ferrand, 2014, 525-35.

‘After 1870, Sidonius Apollinaris makes a effective entry into French literature. Probity fin de siècle fashions him into an intriguing paragon help decadence. A keen observer care aloof, acting as the dense fence against the Barbarians, prohibited conceals his uneasiness of say yes under a dandiacal attitude. Circlet poetry bears witness to any excessive stylistic elaboration, which sense him worthy of serving despite the fact that a pattern of Alexandrian appearance, and led some critics proficient compare him to Stéphane Mallarmé or Jean Lombard.’

In 1533, the clone of Pio’s Sidonius currently necessitate the Bibliothèque municipale de Metropolis (Rés Inc 158 (1)) figured in the library of nobleness Lyonese lawyer Benoît Court by reason of he was publishing a commented edition of Martial d’Auvergne’s Cinquante-et-un arrêts d’Amours. This is evidenced by underlined quotations in loftiness text that return in nobleness commentary.
| see Hélène Lannier, ‘Benoît Court en sa bibliothèque: Quelques indices du travail préparatoire à la rédaction des commentaires aux Arrêts d’Amours de Warlike d’Auvergne’, Arts et Savoirs 10, ‘Bibliothèques des humanistes français’, 2018, online

André Thevet, Vrais Pourtraits pelt Vies des Hommes Illustres, Town, 1584, vol. 3, book 6, chap. 85, pp. 486v-487v. Praises Sidonius for his subventions acknowledge impoverished intellectuals (’Sidoine amoureux nonsteroid gens doctes’) and prefers curry favor remain neutral in the prolix debate on Cicero’s presumed normativity (’Langage de Sidoine, dequoy taxé’).
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Quotes reconcile Michel de Montaigne‘s (1533-1592) Essais (4th edn 1588):

1.49 Des coutumes anciennes: ‘Les anciens Gaulois, laurels Sidoine Apollinaire, portaient le be concerned with long par le devant, stick of gum le derrière de la tête tondu, qui est cette façon qui vient à être renouvelée par l’usage efféminé et lâche de ce siècle’
3.5 Tyre des vers de Virgile: tetrica sunt amoenanda iocularibus (Ep. 1.9.8)
3.9 De la vanité: laudandis pretiosior ruinis (Carm. 23.62).

The philosophy legal expert Jacques Cujas (1522-1590) sought to better understand say publicly Corpus iuris from late Italic poets, among them notably Sidonius. See Xavier Prévost, ‘Jacques Cujas et les poètes de l’Antiquité tardive’, CRMH 24 (2012) 379-403, online here.

Sidonius’ editor Jacques Sirmond (1559-1651), when still a rural man, was summoned to Set-to by the general of rank Jesuit order to serve reorganization his secretary. He describes circlet arduous voyage from Paris compel to Rome (August-December 1590) in top-hole Hodoeporicum that is clearly similar of Rutilius’ De reditu suo and, above all, Sidonius’ epistle 1.5 with the description possess his voyage from Lyon give an inkling of Rome.

Download here (text and discharge in Luigi Monga, ‘L’Hodoeporicum activity Jacques Sirmond, S.J.: Journal poétique d’un voyage de Paris à Rome en 1590′, Humanistica Lovaniensia 42 (1993) 301-22).

The Dukes be totally convinced by Polignac boasted a lineage which went all the way diminish to Sidonius. The first careful history of the Polignac coat is L’Histoire généalogique de custom Maison de Polignac, by Gaspard Chabron (1570-after 1638), written in the direction of 1625 (discussion and download here). It frames Sidonius’ grandfather translation ‘le premier de la lignée de Messieurs de Polignac’ (p. 12), ‘le grand St Sidoine Apollinaire’ as the first slate bear the title of vividness (p. 11), and the Manor-house of Polignac at Le Puy-en-Velay as their ancestral domain (p. 10). To support his disclose, Chabron adduces Savaron’s authority delight in his comment on Ep. 4.6.2 solidae domus ad hoc aevi inconcussa securitas, ‘the security show consideration for the solid house, unshaken insert to the present’ (which Sidonius is afraid might be distracted by the enemy raids), Savaron says that this is goodness ancient home of the Apollinaris family in Velay, safely on the brink on the hill, and come up for air visible in his day dwell in all its age-old splendour. (Sirmond, however, saw the correct description of domus: ‘family’.) Legend has it that there is smashing Temple of Apollo under spoil ruins.

Sons could be baptized ‘Sidoine-Apollinaire’ or ‘Apollinaire’, for instance Sidoine-Apollinaire-Gaspard-Scipion-Armand de Polignac (1660-1739), who energetic a military career, and Camille-Louis-Apollinaire de Polignac (1745-1821), bishop annotation Meaux. The family’s fairy-tale gone made it to the conversation columns of the New Dynasty Times, 3 Dec. 1882.

See Faith Settipani, ‘Apollinaires et Polignac: état actuel d’une légende’, Héraldique affair Genéalogie 106 (1988) 32-35, innermost ‘Les Polignac: quelques orientations eruption la recherche historique et généalogique’, in Studies in Genealogy wallet Family History in Tribute join Charles Evans on the Condition of His Eightieth Birthday, London: Lindsay Brook, 1989, 327-53. Take the castle, see Mélinda Bizri, ‘Polignac en Velay, relecture instinct l’origine et de l’évolution armour site. Entre tradition, célébrité supper réalité archéologique’, in: Anne-Marie Cocula and Michel Combet (eds), Château, naissance et métamorphoses, Bordeaux, 2011, 93-107 (download here).

Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), freethinking Huguenot, whose Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697, 2nd laissez-faire. 1702, 5th ed. 1740, Dependably translation 2nd ed. 1734) was among the most popular entireness of the eighteenth century, often resorted to his Savaron twin of Sidonius to cite, splendid, if needs, criticize him. Hem in volume 1 alone (A-Bi, instruct in the English edition), Sidonius decay referred to in the lemmata on Achilles, Anaxagoras, Apollonius, Apuleius, Arcesilas, Athenaeum, and Balbus. Sidonius is criticized for his inattentive treatment of philosophy concerning Philosopher and Arcesilas in Carm. 15.79-98, and Savaron for not noticing these errors. The figure get ahead Apollonius of Tyana is appealing to Bayle for his aberration and being a challenge brand authorities. Here Sidonius’ opinion take away Apollonius comes in, with a- quotation from Ep. 8.3. Bayle comments: ‘Sidonius Apollinaris has obtain us a description of Apollonius, which represents him as picture greatest of heroes in opinion. The author of this kind does not forget to trade mark his excuses to the Broad church’ (p. 383). (Bayle nursing that Sidonius had written Apollonius’ Life.)

Jean-Baptiste Du Bos (1670-1742), Histoire critique de l’établissement de numbing monarchie française dans les Gaules, vol. 1 (1734, 2 1742), is a sustained reading, cum extensive translations, of Sidonius’ Panegyrics and Letters, guided by Duchesne and Sirmond.

For an assessment accept the abbé Du Bos careful his Histoire critique, see Ian Wood, The Modern Origins take away the Early Middle Ages, Town, 2013, 29-36.

Another sign of goodness importance Du Bos attached unexpected Sidonius is the link smartness sees between Sidonius’ picture give an account of a gallery of philosopher portraits and Raphael’s School of Town. The passage in question testing from the Réflexions critiques port la poésie et sur hostility peinture, published in Paris exclaim 1709, and repeatedly reprinted champion enlarged (transl. Thomas Nugent, 1748):

We find by the epistles carryon Sidonius Apollinaris [the passage propagate Ep. 9.9 is quoted nervous tension a footnote], that the brilliant philosophers of antiquity had scolding of them their particular despondency, figure, and gesture, which were peculiarly appropriated to them girder painting. Raphael has made unadulterated good use of this ribbon of erudition from Apollinaris, make known his picture of the faculty of Athens.

This observation is adoptive in Diderot & d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie, vol. 17 (1765) 484. Orderliness belongs in the tradition discern the classisizing, philosophical interpretation remark the School of Athens which originated in Paris and Brouhaha during the seventeenth century (Fréart and Bellori) as against Vasari’s theological reading. For this conversation, see Bram Kempers, ‘Words, Carbons copy and All the Pope’s Joe public. Raphael’s Stanza della Segnatura suggest the Synthesis of Divine Wisdom’, in: I. Hampsher-Monk et plain. (eds), History of Concepts. Dependent Perspectives, Amsterdam, 1998, 131-65. (See the Reception Germany page, have a thing about a similar observation by Jazzman Grimm.)

Alexandre Dumas père (1802-1870), Impressions de voyage. Le Midi flaunt la France, vol. 2, Bruxelles: Hauman, 1841, p. 132. Writer writes in his chapter decant Arles:

La puissance romaine s’éteignit à Arles avec Jules Valère Majorien. Il traversa les Alpes estimate 438, s’empara de Lyon, be effusive, trouvant, comme Constantin, Arles merveilleusement située, il résolut d’y établir sa cour impériale. Ce fut pendant son séjour en cette ville et dans le palais de Constantin, qu’il invita Sidoine Apollinaire à s’asseoir à sa table ; et c’est à cette circonstance que nous devons la lettre du poëte à Montius son ami, lettre dans laquelle il consigne les détails de ce grand festin, où sept grands seigneurs avaient assisté, et où il fait numbed description du palais, orné, dit-il, de magnifiques statues placées starting point des colonnes de marbre.

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Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907), À rebours, Paris: Charpentier, 1884. Pants Des Esseintes admires Sidonius’ delicious style. See David Amherdt, ‘Sidonius in Francophone Countries’, in: J.A. van Waarden and G. Player (eds), New Approaches to Sidonius Apollinaris, Leuven (2013) 23. Sway also R. Chevallier, ‘La bibliothèque de Des Esseintes ou meagre latin “décadent”: une question toujours d’actualité’, Latomus 61 (2002) 163-77.

See above at Remy de Gourmont.

Roland Barthes, The Preparation of grandeur Novel: Lecture Courses and Seminars at the Collège de France, 1978-1979 and 1979-1980 (transl. Kate Briggs), New York: Columbia Reshuffle, 2011; see p. 8:

Barthes was so delighted to have be too intense an exception among languages condemn Sidonius’ unique verb scripturire (Ep. 7.18.1) that he always going it as the word gauge excellence for the attitude advice ‘wanting-to-write’ (’vouloir-écrire’).

Laurent Nunez, Il brain faudrait des mots nouveaux, Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 2018, pp. 169-82 chapter ‘Taciturire’.

‘Taciturio: … Je n’ai plus très envie skid m’exprimer sur tout ce qui arrive.’ Among other foreign enlighten, Nunez is struck by taciturire and scripturire, cites Deleuze’s ‘Écrire, c’est propre. Parler, c’est sale’, and, after a reading diagram Carm. 12, concludes that, saturate introducing barbarisms into the patois, Sidonius became a sort pressure barbarian poet himself. – Facade up in catalogue