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Pierre Pithou (
November 1,
1539 –
November 1,
1596), was a
French lawyer and scholar. He is also known as
Petrus Pithoeus.
He was born at
Troyes. From childhood he loved literature, and his father Pierre encouraged this interest. Young Pithou was called to the
Paris bar in 1560. On the outbreak of the second war of religion in 1567, Pithou, who was a
Calvinist, withdrew to
Sedan, France and afterwards to
Basel, returning to France on the publication of the edict of pacification. Soon afterwards he accompanied the duc de Montmorency on his embassy to
England, returning shortly before the
massacre of St Bartholomew, in which he narrowly escaped with his life. Next year he followed the example of the future
Henry IV of France by abjuring the
Protestant faith.
Henry, shortly after his accession to the throne, recognized Pithou's talents and services by giving him various legal appointments. The most important work of his life was his co-operation in the production of the
Satire Ménippée (1593), which did so much to damage the cause of the
Catholic League; the harangue of the
Sieur d'Aubray is usually attributed to Pithou. He died at Nogent-sur-Seine. His valuable library, specially rich in manuscripts, was for the most part transferred to what is now the
Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.
Pithou wrote many legal and historical books, besides preparing editions of several ancient writers. His earliest publication was
Adversariorum subsectorum lib. II. (1565). In
1569, he became the first to publish
Landolfus Sagax'
Historia Romana, and under the name by which it became better known:
Historia Miscella. Perhaps his edition of the
Leges Visigothorum (1579) was his most valuable contribution to historical science; in the same line he edited the
Capitula of
Charlemagne,
Louis the Pious, and
Charles the Bald in 1588, and he also assisted his brother François in preparing an edition of the
Corpus juris canonici (1687). His
Libertés de l'église gallicane (1594) is reprinted in his
Opera sacra juridica his orica miscellanea collecta (1609). In classical literature he was the first who made the world acquainted with the
Fables of
Phaedrus (1596); he also edited the
Pervigilium Veneris (1587), and
Satires of Juvenal and
Persius (1585).
Three of Pithou's brothers acquired distinction as jurists:
Jean,
Nicolas; and
François Pithou.
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