Octavien de Saint-Gelais

Writer, born in Cognac, W France. He became Bishop of Angoulême (1494), and made his reputation as a poet, without publishing in his lifetime. He translated Virgil (L'Enéide) and Ovid (Héroïdes), and co-wrote a long allegorical poem on the temptations of youth, Le Séjour d'Honneur, published in 1519 and 1521.

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Octavien de Saint-Gelais (1468-1502) was a French churchman, poet, and translator.

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