Project | Global Thucydides
Catalogue | Digital catalogue
Entry | Harangues militaires, et concions de Princes, Capitaines, Ambassadeurs, et autr…
Harangues militaires, et concions de Princes, Capitaines, Ambassadeurs, et autres manians tant la guerre que les affaires d'Estat. Comprenant les grandes et urgentes negotiations de toutes les anciennes monarchies, et representant l'image, et office des rois, legislateurs, orateurs, ambassadeurs de rois, empereurs, potentats, republiques, et des excellens capitaines : le succez des divers estudes de factieux : les oyens de se prevaloir (és choses desplorées) de ceux qui sont estonnez : les moeurs de diverses nations, et les loix et coustumes de plusieurs villes et provinces : le discours des faicts et plus secrets affaires des Hebrieux, Persans, Grecs, Romains, François, Allemans, Goths, Wandales, Lombards, Espagnols : comme aussi des pays plus esloignez et septentrionaux, et jusques aux remuements faicts par les Barbares
Typology:
Translation |
Language: French |
Place of publication: Paris |
Publisher: Chez Nicolas Chesneau |
Year: 1572
Greek Text: no
Content: Anthologies | Pericles’ Funeral Oration | The Debate on Mytilene
François de Belleforest (1530-1583), translator, poet, and historiographer. Belleforest first served at the court of Marguerite of Navarre before establishing himself in Paris, where he was appointed historiographer to Charles IX in 1568. Over the course of his career, he authored more than fifty works across genres, notably the seven‑volume Histoires tragiques (1566-1583), a moralizing collection of tragic tales based on Italian originals that enjoyed bestseller status and influenced the reception of narrative forms in Renaissance France. Recognized as the author of the first French pastoral novel, La Pyrénée (1571), and producer of the richly illustrated Cosmographie universelle (1575), he further contributed to historical discourse with polemical works like Grandes Annales de France (1579). An active translator, Belleforest rendered Italian, Spanish, Latin, and Greek authors – such as Bandello, Boccaccio, Guicciardini, Cicero, Thucydides and Demosthenes – into French. Treccani
French translation of selected speeches from the History: Thuc. 1.31-43 (Speech of the Corcyreans and the Corinthians), 68-71 (Speech of the Corinthians), 73-78 (Speech of the Athenians), 80-86 (Speech of Archidamus), 120-124 (Speech of the Corinthians), 140-144 (Pericles' First Speech); 2.11 (Speech of Archidamus), 35-46 (Pericles' Funeral Oration), 60-64 (Pericles' Third Speech), 71.2-4 (Speech of the Plataeans), 87 (Speech of Brasidas), 89 (Speech of Phormio); 3.9-14 (Speech of the Mytileneans), 30 (Speech of Teutiaplos), 37-40 (Speech of Cleon), 42-48 (Speech of Diodotus), 53-59 (Speech of the Plataeans), 61-67 (Speech of the Thebans); 4.10 (Speech of Demosthenes), 17-20 (Speech of the Lacedaemonians), 59-64 (Speech of Hermocrates), 85-87 (Speech of Brasidas), 92 (Speech of Pagondas), 126 (Speech of Brasidas); 5.9 (Speech of Brasidas); 6.9-14 (Speech of Nicias), 16-18 (Speech of Alcibiades), 20-23 (Speech of Nicias), 33-34 (Speech of Hermocrates), 36-40 (Speech of Athenagoras), 69 (Speech of the Thebans), 76-80 (Speech of Hermocrates), 82-87 (Speech of Euphemus), 89-92 (Speech of Alcibiades); 7.11-15 (Letter of Nicias to the Athenians), 66-68 (Speech of Gylippus), 77 (Speech of Nicias), along with translations of speeches from other authors (including Herodotus, Xenophon, Polybius, Tacitus, Plutarch, Sallust, Ammianus Marcellinus, Machiavelli, Janus Lascaris, Charles IX of France).
