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Albutius persuade à Alciat qu’il laisse
les tumultes d’Italie, & vienne en
France.[1]
XXX.
La Pesche és regions de Perse
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Est venim, & mort aux mangeans:
En autres lieux est moins pervertie,
Et rend bonne pasture aux gents:[2]
Ainsi est-il de maints regents.
Sçavants & de langue diserte:
Qui leurs lieux prestement changeans,
Changent tout malheur & disette.
commentaires.
La pesche, (qui est sortie
de Perse, region orientale
d’Asie, & d’où elle porte le nom,) est un fruict fort
venimeux, & mesmes mortel en ces
pais la: Qui fit
que les dits Perses, guerroyeans contre les Romains,
planterent frauduleusement cest arbre en plusieurs &
divers endroits de l’Europe, esperans que par le man-
ger dudit fruict le peuple seroit incontinent empoi-
sonné & esteinct. Mais il se tromperent entiere-
ment: car cest arbre, transport [=transporté]
en la Chrestienté, s’est
bonifié entierement: Si que il y porte de fort bons &
beaux fruicts. Ses feuilles ressemblent des langues, &
ses pommes sont semblables a un coeur. Albute donc
admonneste Alciat, qu’il face de mesmes, & qu’il se
retire hors des tumultes d’Italie, & qu’il plante son
sie-
ge ailleurs, ou il pourra estre en beaucoup plus gran-
de estime: car il n’est pas moins excellent & illustre
par sa langue, qu’il l’est par son coeur: c’est
à dire, il n’est
pas seulement disert & eloquent, mais il est aussi ex-
cellent en sçavoir & en prudence. Conseil, dont Alciat
ne se trouva pas mal: car il a leu publiquement en
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France un fort long temps, avec grand honneur
& renommee. Nul prophete n’est honoré en
son pais.
1. This person has been identified as Aurelius Albutius, lawyer, scholar and poet, like Alciato originally from Milan. On the question of the genuineness of this ascription and a suggested date for the epigram preceding Alciato’s first removal to France in 1518, see J. Köhler, Der ‘Emblematum liber’ von Andreas Alciatus (1492-1550) (Hildesheim: August Lax, 1986).
2. Alciato had two periods in France. He was lecturing on Civil Law in Avignon from 1518-1522, then returned to Milan. He again took up his teaching post in Avignon in 1527, and then removed to Bourges, where he remained until his return to Italy (Pavia) in 1533. The ‘troubles’ mentioned could be political (there was much fighting and tumult in N. Italy), or could refer to the wrangling between rival schools of academic lawyers during Alciato’s youth.
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