Gilles d'Aurigny

Gilles d’Aurigny (also Daurigny, surnamed Le Pamphile, d. 1553) was a French poet and lawyer.

Born in Beauvais, he served as attorney to the Parlement in Paris. He published a few legal treatises, such as Ordonnances des rois de France (1527, 1528) and Le Livre de police humaine (translation of a work by François Patrice, 1544). Little is known about his life. His best-known work is Le Tuteur d'amour of 1546, a poem in decasyllabic verse, at the time noted for its elegant style and rich imagination.

Literary works:

• ... published in 1516, a Latin commentary on Songe du Verger, a work attributed to Évrart de Trémaugon
• ' (1528), published together with the work of the same title by Martial d'Auvergne in 1545 (reprinted several times until 1555).
• ', 1545, contains a French translation of Heracles by Lucian of Samosata.
• ' (1545)
• ' (1546), reprinted in Lyon 1547 http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k72063s, Paris 1553.
• ', published posthumously 1557. This is a more developed version of his Généalogie des Dieux poétiques de 1545.

• ' (1549, reprinted 1551), French translation of biblical psalms, set to music by Didier Lupi Second, later included in the Psautier de Paris along with works by Clément Marot, Robert Brincel, Claude-Barthélémy Bernard and Christophe Richer.
• ' (1547), a lost work attributed d'Aurigny by Antoine Du Verdier (1585)

Wilhelm Killmayer set one of his poems in his song cycle ' in 1968.

References

• Abbé Goujet. Gilles d’Aurigny, dit le Pamphile. In Bibliothèque françoise, vol. XII (Paris, 1748), 428f.