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Jean-Jacques Boissard ( 1528 - October 30 , 1602 ), was a French antiquary and Latin Poet .

He was born at Besançon and educated at Leuven ; but disgusted by the severity of his master, he secretly left the seminary there, and travelled through Germany to Italy , where he remained several years and was often reduced to poverty. His time in Italy gave him a taste for antiquities, and he soon formed a collection of curious artefacts from Rome and its vicinity. He then visited the islands of Greece , but a severe illness obliged him to return to Rome. Here he resumed his favourite pastimes, and having completed his collection, returned to France; but not being permitted to profess publicly the Protestant religion, which he had embraced some time before, he withdrew to Metz , where he remained till his death.

His most important works are:
  • ''Poemata'' (1574)

  • ''Emblemata'' (1584)

  • ''Icones Virorum Illustrium'' (1597)

  • ''Vitae et Icones Sultanorum Turcicorum, etc.'' (1597)

  • ''Theatrum Vitae Humanae'' (1596)

  • ''Romanae Urbis Topogrephia'' (1597-1602), now very rare

  • ''De Divinatione et Magicis Praestigiis'' (1605)

  • ''Habitus Variarum Orbis Gentium'' (1581), ornamented with seventy illuminated figures.



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