Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) was a French poet. Events April 11 - Battle of Ceresole - French forces under the Comte dEnghien defeat Imperial forces under the Marques Del Vasto near Turin. ... Events March 14 - Battle of Ivry - Henry IV of France again defeats the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne. ...
He was a Huguenot, and served under Henry IV of France. He is known as an epic poet. La Sepmaine; ou, Creation du monde (1578) was an influential Biblical work, which was translated into English. With its unfinished sequel La Seconde Sepmaine (1584) it was a theologically-Protestant work on the scriptures. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the name of Huguenots came to apply to members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France. ... Henry IV (French: Henri IV) (December 13, 1553 – May 14, 1610), called the Great (French: le Grand), was the first of the Bourbon kings of France, reigning from 1589 until 1610. ...
He translated into English heroic couplets the scriptural epic of Guillaume duBartas.
The ornate style of the original offered no difficulty to Sylvester, who was himself a disciple of the Euphuists and added many adornments of his own invention.
The Sepmaines of DuBartas appealed most to his English and German co-religionists, and the translation was immensely popular.
Les Emblemes Moraulx et Militaires Du Sieur Jacob De Bruck Angermundt Nouvellement mis en Lumiere.
Tobacco Tortvred, or, the Filthie Fvme of Tobacco Refined: Shewing all sorts of Subiects, that the inward taking of Tobacco fumes, is very pernicious vnto their bodies; too too profluuious for many of their purses; and most pestiferous to the publike State.
DuBartas his Divine Weekes and Workes: With A Complete Collection of all the other most delightfull Workes, Translated and Written by that famous philomusus Josuah Sylvester, Gent.
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