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Odet de Turnèbe (23 October 1552, Paris - 20 July 1581) was a French dramatist.

Biography

Son of the Greek scholar Adrien Turnèbe, Odet de Turnèbe received a solid education and was known, from an early age, for his intelligence and wit. After having served as a lawyer in the Parlement of Paris, he was chosen to become first president of the Cour des monnaies, but he succumbed to a fever and died at the age of 30.

Works

He wrote a comedy in prose, Les Contents (written c. 1580, published after his death) which was largely inspired (like the works of his contemporary Pierre de Larivey) by contemporary Italian comedy. Turnèbe also wrote three Petrarchian sonnets (the first in French, the second in Italian and the third in Spanish), a poem entitled La Puce (using a Latinized version of his name: Odet de Tournebu) and twelve sonnets entitled Sonets sur les ruines de Luzignan addressed to Catherine Des Roches (with whom he declared himself in love).

References

• This article is based on the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia, consulted on October 30, 2007.
• Les Conten[t]s - critical edition edited by Norman B. Spector, Paris, Didier, 1961

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Name	Turnebe, Odet de
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Date of birth	23 October 1552
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Date of death	20 July 1581
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