Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528 – 30 October 1602) was an antiquary and

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poet.

Life

He was born at

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and educated at

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; but he secretly left the seminary there, and travelled through (Germany) to Italy, where he remained several years and was often reduced to poverty. His time in Italy gave him a taste for antiquities, and he formed a collection of artefacts from Rome and its vicinity. He then visited the islands of Greece, but illness obliged him to return to Rome. Here he completed his collection, and returned to France; but not being permitted to profess publicly the Protestant religion, which he had embraced some time before, he withdrew to

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, where he remained until his death.

Works

He provided text and drawings for books by Robert Boissard,

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, Jacques Granthomme and

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.British Museum database page
Major works are: *''Poemata'' (1574) *''Emblemata'' (1584) *''Icones Virorum Illustrium'' (1597) *''Vitae et Icones Sultanorum Turcicorum, etc.'' (1597) *''Theatrum Vitae Humanae'' (1596) *''Romanae urbis topographia et antiquitates'' (1597–1602) *''De Divinatione et Magicis Praestigiis'' (1605) *''Habitus Variarum Orbis Gentium'' (1581), ornamented with seventy illuminated figures.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Boissard, Jean-Jacques 1528 births 1602 deaths Writers from Besançon 16th-century French poets French Protestants Neo-Latin poets French antiquarians French male poets French male non-fiction writers