- Jean de Nostredame
Jean de Nostredame (1522–1576/7) was a Provençal historian and writer. He was the younger brother of
Michel de Nostredame .He was baptised at
Saint-Remy-de-Provence on19 February 1522 . He followed the footsteps of his father, Jaume de Nostredame, as anotary public and served as aprocurator of theCour de Parlement of Provence in Aix.Nostredame's major work is "Les vies des plus célèbres et anciens Poètes provensaux, qui ont floury du temps des comtes de Provence" (Lyon: Alexandre Marsilij, 1575). It presents itself as a history of the
troubadours . Today it is regarded as largely fantasy, though nuggets of historical truth remain. Nostredame lists three sources for his accounts, but none of these survive. In the eighteenth centuryGiovanni Mario Crescimbeni was influenced by Nostredame, but in the twentieht, Camille Chabaneau and Joseph Anglade showed definitively that most of Nostredame cannot be corroborated.References
*Boase, Roger (1977). "The Origin and Meaning of Courtly Love: A Critical Study of European Scholarship". Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0 87471 950 x.
* [http://ramkat.free.fr/jean.html Jean de Nostredame] at Espace Nostradamus
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