Jean antoine de baif biography of alberta

(1532 - 1589)

"Si d'un vent elle entend quelque sifflante haleine,

Par le feuillage �pais des chênes se ployant,

Qu'il lui semble écouter les soupirs de ma peine."

Jean Antoine de Baïf, Les Amours de Francine

French poet, born in Venice as the illegitimate son of the humanist Lazare de Baïf, he enjoyed an exceptional humanist education.

From the cradle he was entrusted to Ange Vergèce and Charles Estienne, then at the age of eightto Jacques Toussaint, professor of Greek to the Collège royal, before studying under the eminent hellenist Jean Dorat himself, who became his tutor at the same time as that of Pierre de Ronsard in the Baïf residence.

On the death of his father in 1547, Jean Antoine de Baîf succeeded Dorat at the Coll�ge de Coqueret, of which he became the principal, and, where he joined Ronsard and later Joachim Du Bellay; united by common poetic