Recognized in his time as the “French Horace,” Jean Salmon Macrin was the inheritor of more than one model and expressed his voice with subtlety in a poetic body of work exclusively written in Latin. The rich paratext of this bilingual reference edition sheds light on the life and oeuvre of the poet from Loudun.
Keyword: Mythology, meter analysis, lyricism, Giovanni Pontano, Theodore Beza, Guillaume Budé, Du Bellay family (Guillaume, Jean, Joachim), humanism, classical literature, sixteenth-century literature
