Jacques Pelletier du Mans, also spelled Peletier, in Latin Iacobus Peletarius Cenomani, was a humanist, poet and mathematician of the French Renaissance, born at Le Mans on 25 July 1517 and dead on 17 July 1582. He studied at the Collège de Navarre in Paris, where his brother Jean was professor of mathematics and philosophy, then law and medicine, and from 1541 to 1543 he was secretary to René du Bellay. In 1541 he published the first French translation of Horace's Ars Poetica, and in the same period he published numerous scientific and mathematical treatises. His Œuvres poétiques of 1547 included the first published poems of Joachim Du Bellay and Pierre de Ronsard, and Ronsard counted him among the revolutionary poets of the Pléiade.
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Iacobus Peletarius Cenomani, 25 July 1517 – 17 July 1582) was a humanist, poet and mathematician of the French Renaissance. == Life == Born in Le Mans into a bourgeois family, he studied at the Collège de Navarre in Paris, where his brother Jean was a
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Iacobus Peletarius Cenomani, 25 July 1517-17 July 1582) was a humanist, poet and mathematician of the French Renaissance. == Life == Born in Le Mans into a bourgeois family, he studied at the Collège de Navarre in Paris, where his brother Jean was a
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Pelletier du Mans, also spelled Peletier (Latin: Iacobus Peletarius Cenomani, 25 July 1517-17 July 1582) was a humanist, poet and mathematician of the French Renaissance. == Life == Born in Le Mans into a bourgeois family, he studied at the Collège
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poet and mathematician of the French Renaissance. == Life == Born in Le Mans into a bourgeois family, he studied at the Collège de Navarre in Paris, where his brother Jean was a professor of mathematics and
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