About Lazare de Baïf
Lived 1496 – 1547 (aged 50–51). Lazare de Baïf was a French linguist, diplomat, poet, translator, philosopher and classical scholar.
Lazare de Baïf (1496–1547) was a French diplomat and humanist. His natural son, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, was born in Venice, while Lazare was French ambassador there.
He published a translation of the Electra of Sophocles in 1537, and afterwards a version of the Hecuba. He was an elegant writer of Latin verse, and is commended by Joachim du Bellay as having introduced certain valuable words into the French language.
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Who was Lazare de Baïf?
French diplomat and humanist
When was Lazare de Baïf born?
Lazare de Baïf was born in 1496 in La Flèche.
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Lazare de Baïf died in 1547 in Paris.
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Lazare de Baïf was a linguist, diplomat, poet, translator, philosopher and classical scholar.
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Lazare de Baïf was French.
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