Jean-Jacques Boissard

Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528 – 30 October 1602) was a French antiquary and Neo-Latin poet.

Jean-Jacques Boissard c.1598 by Theodore de Bry.

Life[]

He was born at Besançon and educated at Leuven; 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 Metz, where he remained till his death.^[1]

Works[]

He provided text and drawings for books by , Theodor de Bry, and .^[2] 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.^[1]

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• (in German) His Bibliotheca chalcographica, hoc est Virtute et eruditione clarorum Virorum Imagines

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Boissard, Jean Jacques". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
• Digitized Edition of 'Bibliotheca chalcographica, hoc est Virtute et eruditione clarorum Virorum Imagine, latin, from 1669, at E-rara.ch