biography
pronunciation:
[la tiy]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1540–c.1607)
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| biography:
| Poet and playwright, born in Bondaroy, C France. He studied in Paris and was influenced by Pierre de Ronsard and Joachim du Bellay. In his important De l'art de la tragédie, which appeared in a collection (1572), he advocated the modelling of French tragedy on classical lines. He wrote a tragedy Saül le furieux (1562). Among his most notable poems are Le Courtisan retiré and Le Prince nécessaire. |
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