Pierre Boaistuau
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Pierre Boaistuau, known as Pierre Launay (1500, Nantes - 1566, Paris) was a French author, editor, translator. He was the first editor of the works of Marguerite de Navarre. His greatest success as an author was Théâtre du Monde (1558).
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- Histoires prodigieuses les plus mémorables qui ayent esté observées, depuis la Nativité de Iesus Christ, iusques à nostre siècle: Extraites de plusieurs fameux autheurs, Grecz, & Latins, sacrez & profanes. Paris 1560. A collection of strange tales of monsters, sea-monsters, and other creatures.
- Prodigieuses, extraictes de plusierus fameux autheurs, Grecs et Latins, sacez et prophanes: mise en nostre langue par P. (B., surnommé Launay), natif de Bretagne: avec les pourtraitcts et figures (...) Paris 1566. A collection of extraordinary stories of the horrific acts of the Devil, demons, and more particularly monsters. The reasons for the appearance of monsters, sea-monsters, monstrous childbirths, Siamese-twins, creatures half-man and half-animal, floods and other horrors of nature.
- L'Histoire de Chelidonius Tigurinus sur l'institution des Princes Chrestiens et origine des Royaumes, Traduit de Latin en Francoys...Avec un traite de paix et de guerre, et un autre de l'excellence et dignite de Mariage. Ensemble une autre hystoire de la fausse religion de Mahommet, et par quel moyen. Anvers 1570. An English edition of this work, translated by James Chillester was printed in London in 1571
- Le théâtre du monde
- Les Amants fortunés
- Histoires tragiques, translation of Matteo Bandello's Novelle of 1554.
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