Pierre Danes

Biography

It was put in its youth at the Collège of Navarre, where it obtained greatest successes in the Latin knowledge of the languages, Greek, Hebraic. Its reputation increased quickly, and became such as in 1530, François Ier, which had just founded the Collège de France, appointed of it Danes the first professor in Greek language. This last was not long in justifying the choice of the monarch by the erudite observations which it published on several old authors, and, in the little of time that it occupied this pulpit, it counted the most distinguished pupils, such as Amyot, of Billy, Brisson, Daurat, Five-Trees.

At the end of five years, tormented desire to see the Italy, it obtained the permission, to leave the college of France, and followed Georges de Selve, his friend, who had just been appointed ambassador with Venice. After having made, in this fatherland of the letters, a full harvest of knowledge, it returned to Paris. In 1543, it was one of the judges who condemned unfortunate Ramus, and this feature is not undoubtedly most beautiful of its history.

Two years after, François Ier appointed it ambassador of France to the Concile of Thirty, with Claude d' Urfé and Jean Desligneris. The harangue that it pronounced there on its arrival was very applauded. Danes supported blinking there the honor of its country. All its biographers reported the happy word which escaped to him in one from the meetings from the council. As a French speaker strongly déclamait against slackened manners of ecclesiastics d' Italie, Sebastien Vance, bishop of Orviette, said with contempt: Gallus cantat. - Utinam , retorted highly Danes, AD galli cantum Petrus resipisceret. After the death of François Iev, Henri II, his successor, named Danes tutor of the dolphin, since François II.

He became even confessor of this prince, and obtained, in 1557, évêché of Lavaur. He had been previously cleaned of Saint-Jose (church) in Paris. Danes died octogenarian in this city, where had called the businesses of its diocese, the April 23rd 1579, and was buried with Saint-Germain-of-Meadows. He had seen four kings.

It was one of the most erudite men of its time. Guided in the study of the languages by Lascaris and Guillaume Budé, he did not contradict so skilful Masters; and, if it left few writings, it did not render from there less great services to the letters. One made on these words: Petrus Danesius , an anagram all the more happy, it is exact: Of superis natus .

In 1731, Pierre-Hilaire Danes, same family, doctor de Sorbonne and adviser-clerk with the Parliament of Paris (He died in Paris, on January 1st 1732, in its sixty-sixth year.), published the Vie, praises and opuscules of Pierre Danes , Paris, in-4°, with the portrait of the author.

Publications

One note there:

a Latin Letter with Jacques Hake on his future voyage from Italy ;
the Foreword of an edition of Pline which it gave to Paris, 1532, in-fol., under the name of Petrus Bellocirius (Belletière), its servant;
a Apologetic Letter , in Latin, for François Ier, against Charles-Quint ; its Harangue with conceived of Thirty;
a writing on Aristote, entitled: Of substantia and modis ejus ;
a Instruction, in French, for Misters de Lansac and of Lisle, ambassadors in Rome and the council . It was claimed that the entitled book: Of ritibus Ecclesiœ catholicœ libri very , published under the name of Jean-Estienne Duranti, Rome, 1591, in-8°, was entire composition of Danes, and that to his death, president Duranti, having bought his library and his papers, had appropriate the manuscript of the work, and had made it print under its name. Dupin ( Newspaper of the scientists , May 1702) and the Tricaud abbot, in his Tests of literature of July of the same year, decided for the negative one. P.H. Danes their answered by an essay inserted in the above mentioned collection. Its reasons are only presumptions, and, probably, the question never will be decided perfectly. Nobody, with the surplus, realized that Duranti itself quotes Danes, with the liv. 2, chap. 5 of this book. Gujus loci , says it, alias me admonuit Danes, atque Vaurensis episcopus, homo doctrina optimarum artium studiis eruditus .

There is still of Danes an edition of Justin, Florus, Sextus Rufus, Paris, 1519, folio, and some other parts which one will find stated in the Mémoires of Niceron.

Some writers claim that he is author of the 10th book of the history of Paul Emile ; at least Michel Vascosan said to have received its hand of it the manuscript. It corrected the text of the Physica scholia of Alexandre d' Aphrodisie, printed in Venice by Trincavel, 1536, in folio, and it helped much Georges de Selve in his Traduction of Plutarque. The abbot Nicolas Lenglet-Dufresnoy allots two to him Apologies for Henri II, countered Cœsarianos ; but it breadths perhaps confused with that of François Ist.

The life of Danes, by his/her relative, is, as we said, at the head its opuscules, like its funeral oration pronounced by Genebrard, and several epitaphs made in its honor. The author joined there all testimonys in favor of the bishop of Lavaur, and a particular essay on the family of Danes.

Niceron, T. 19 of its Memories , and the Abbé Goujet in those which it has give on the college of France, almost made only copy the life that we have just indicated: Launoy ( Hist. Gymnas. Navarr. , p. 720) also devoted an article to Danes.

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