Talk:Mellin de Saint-Gelais

Name
All modern biographs spell the name of the French Renaissance poet Mellin de Saint-Gelais (and most of 19th and 20th century biographs too). For instance: Donald Stone, Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He published "Mellin de Saint-Gelais and literary history" in 1983 and Saint-Gelais' collected works as "Oeuvres poétiques françaises" in two volumes (1993 and 1995). Already his late 19th century German biograph Ernst Winfried Wagner entitled his 1893 doctoral thesis "Mellin de Saint-Gelais; an analysis of literary and linguistic history". You will find rarer the historic spellings Melin and Saint-Gelays. His forename is the French-Norman malapropism of the British wizard Merlin featured in Arthurian legends, by the way. --Bogart99 08:45, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Life dates
On April 28, 2006 at 1:15 p.m. (CEST) I wrote an e-mail to the online reference service SINDBAD of Bibliothèque nationale de France with following question:

Madame, Monsieur,

je cherche les dates de la vie de Mellin de Saint-Gelais, poète français de la Renaissance. Concernant sa date de la naissance il y a des informations toutes différentes malheureusement et pour sa date de mort pareillement.

Merci beaucoup à l'avance pour vos efforts!

Je vous prie d'agréer, Madame, Monsieur, l'expression de mes salutations distinguées.

Monsieur Bernard Krespine (Département Littérature et art, Bibliothèque nationale de France) answers on May 3, 2006 at 9:36 a.m. (CEST):

Madame, Monsieur,

Vous trouverez ci-dessous la réponse à la question que vous avez envoyée au service de réponses à distance de la BnF (SINDBAD).

''Il arrive malheureusement que nous n'ayons pas de certitudes sur les dates d'un auteur. Pour Mellin'' de Saint-Gelais, les dates données par notre fichier d'autorité, fondées sur les instruments bibliographiques les plus fiables, sont : 1491-1558

Cordialement, Pour le SINDBAD,

The British Library gives as life dates (1490?-1558), by the way. Nevertheless I decide in favour of the francophile version (born ca. 1491; died October 1558) now. --Bogart99 10:42, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

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