Gilles d'Aurigny (1401–1553)

Born 1401 CE, died 1553 CE.

Gilles d’Aurigny (also Daurigny, surnamed Le Pamphile, d. 1553) was a French poet and lawyer. Born in Beauvais, he served as attorney to the Parlement in Paris. He published a few legal treatises, such as Ordonnances des rois de France (1527, 1528) and Le Livre de police humaine (translation of a work by François Patrice, 1544). Little is known about his life. His best-known work is Le Tuteur d'amour of 1546, a poem in decasyllabic verse, at the time noted for its elegant style and rich imagination. Literary works: Aureus de utraque potestate, temporali scilicet et spirituali, libellus, in hunc usque diem non visus. Somnium Viridarii vulgariter nuncupatus...

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