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AUTHORS: Achillini, Alessandro Agricola, Georgius Alberti, Leone Battista Archimedes Aristotle Babington, John Baif, Lazare de Baldi, Bernardino Baliani, Giovanni Battista Barocius, Franciscus Benedetti, Giovanni Battista Berga, Antonio Biancani, Giuseppe Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso Borro, Girolamo Boyle, Robert Branca, Giovanni Buonamici, Francesco Buteo, Johannes Cardano, Girolamo Casati, Paolo Castelli, Benedetto Cataneo, Girolamo Ceredi, Giuseppe Ceva, Giovanni Cicero, M. Tullius Commandino, Federico Delfino, Federico Descartes, Rene Epicurus Euclid Fabri, Honore Foscarini, Paolo Antonio Galilei, Galileo Gassendi, Pierre Ghetaldi, Marino Giphanius, Hubert Guevara, Giovanni di Heron Alexandrinus Heytesbury, William Hutton, Charles Jordanus de Nemore Landi, Bassiano Lorini, Buonaiuto Lucretius Manuzio, Paolo Marci of Kronland, Johannes Marcus Mellini, Domenico Mersenne, Marin Monantheuil, Henri de Monte, Guidobaldo del Morelli, Gregorio Newton, Isaac Pacioli, Luca Pappus Alexandrinus Salusbury, Thomas Santbech, Daniel Schott, Gaspar Schreck, Johann Terrenz Stelliola, Niccolò Antonio Stevin, Simon Tartaglia, Niccolò Thomaz, Alvaro Thucydides Torricelli, Evangelista Valerio, Luca Varro, Michel Vitruvius Pollio Wolff, Christian von |
Baif, Lazare de born 1485 in Anjou, died 1545 or 1547 in Paris, French diplomat and writer Baif hailed from old nobility in Anjou and in his youth studied chiefly Greek and Latin, the subjects that found the favor of King Francois I. The king sent Baif to Venice as his emissary in 1531, and because he was so successful, he was also sent as an emissary of the king to the courts of a number of German princes. In recognition of his good services, in 1533 the king appointed him “conseiller au parlament de Paris” and later “maítre des requétes.” He was the abbot of Charroux and Grenetier and died in Paris in 1545 or 1547. Baif composed a number of treatises about the navigation, clothing, and vessels of antiquity, especially those of the Romans, “which can be praised for little more than their laborious hard work,” as the Allgemeine Enzyklopädie by Ersch and Gruber wrote. Baif translated Sophocles’ Electra into French verse (Paris 1537), as well as Euripides’ Hecuba (Paris 1544). His son, Jean Antoine de Baif (1532 – 89), was a prominent poet of his age and is regarded as one of the “seven stars of French poetry” in the sixteenth century.
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