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François Béroalde de Verville

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Béroalde's corpus is vast and his works show a preoccupation with encyclopedic learning, the organization of knowledge and the difficulties of interpretation.
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Largely forgotten since the 17th century, Béroalde was rediscovered in the 19th century and has gained renewed critical appreciation in recent years.
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Béroalde had close ties to the intellectual and creative milieus of the late 16th century and early 17th century (including
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His first works were contributions to a work on mathematics and mechanics (1578) and to a history of
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Le Restablissement de Troye, avec lequel parmy les hazards des armes, se voyent les amours d’Æsionne
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His most famous work is the playful, chaotic, baroque, sometimes obscene and almost unreadable
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The Palace of Secrets: Béroalde de Verville and Renaissance Conceptions of Knowledge
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Les Apprehensions spirituelles, poemes et autres oeuvres philosophiques
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Dictionnaire des lettres françaises - Le XVIe siècle
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