Sulla fortuna e sull’uso delle tragedie di Seneca nel Cinquecento francese. Un testo raro di Pierre Grosnet

[Machine translation] This work offers unpublished data on the importance of the poetics of Pierre Grosnez, an author practically ignored by critics exactly like the important role he assumed in the vulgate of part of Senecan thought in the French Renaissance, according to a decidedly philosophical-moral perspective, in which Grosnet creates a constant oscillation between maxims of moral content and maxims that reflect stoicism and Christian theological reflection, precisely in an attempt to provide a repertoire of maxims in which he plunders not only Seneca, but the Pauline theology and Renaissance neo-stoic thought. In particular, the publication by Grosnet, in 1528, of a flower bed by Seneca (Les Authoritez, sentences et singuliers enseignemens du grant censeur poete orateur et philosophe moral Seneque tant en Latin comme en francoys, avecques aucunes concordances des saiges et philosophes pour introduction et information des sciences et vertus) is examined, through an exquisitely philological study that highlights the loans contained in the Authorities.