1550s

Explore 5 quotes from the 1550s

Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has made a glorious voyage.

Joachim Du Bellay

Les Regrets

More information about this quote

Topic

Effects of travel Travel

Author

Joachim Du Bellay

Source

Les Regrets

Medium

Poem

Language

French

Time

1558 1550s 16th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Du Bellay, Joachim. "Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage." Les Regrets. Paris: Fédéric Morel, 1558.

Current Citation

Du Bellay, Joachim. "Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has made a fine journey." The Regrets, translated by David R. Slavitt. Northwestern University Press, 2003.

Speak the truth and shame the Devil.

Francois Rabelais

Gargantua and Pantagruel

Read Gargantua and Pantagruel at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Telling the truth

Author

Francois Rabelais

Source

Gargantua and Pantagruel

Medium

Novel

Genre

Satirical fiction Satire

Language

French

Time

1553 1550s 16th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Rabelais, Francois [published as Alcofribas Nasier]. Le cinquiesme et dernier livre des faicts et dicts héroïques du bon Pantagruel [The Fifth and Last Book of the Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Good Pantagruel]. c. 1564.

Current Citation

Rabelais, Francois. Gargantua & Pantagruel. Dover Publications, 2016, bk. 5, prologue.

The contours of its legs are extremely beautiful, along with the splendid articulations and grace of its flanks, a sweeter and more graceful pose has never been seen that could equal it, nor have feet, hands, and a head ever been produced which so well match all the other parts of the body in skill of workmanship or design. To be sure, anyone who sees the statue need not be concerned with seeing any other piece of sculpture done in our times or in any other period by any other artist.

Giorgio Vasari

The Lives of the Artist

On Michelangelo's David.

More information about this quote

Topic

Sculpture

Author

Giorgio Vasari

Source

The Lives of the Artist

Language

Italian

Time

1550 1550s 16th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Vasari, Giorgio. Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori [Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects]. Florence, c. 1568.

Current Citation

Vasari, Giorgio. The Lives of the Artists, translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 3.

Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend,
What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend?

Nicholas Grimald

More information about this quote

Topic

Value of friendship Friendship Friends

Author

Nicholas Grimald

Source

Of Friendship

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1557 1550s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Grimald, Nicholas. Of Friendship. c. 1557.

For when this song is sung and past,
My lute, be still, for I have done.

Thomas Wyatt

More information about this quote

Topic

Poetry

Author

Thomas Wyatt

Source

The Lute Awake Tottel's Miscellany

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1557 1550s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wyatt, Thomas. "The Lute Awake, or The lover complaineth the unkindness of his love." Songes and Sonettes Written By the Ryght Honorable Lord Henry Howard, late Earle of Surrey, Thomas Wyatt the Elder and others. London: Richard Tottel, 1557.

Current Citation

Wyatt, Thomas. "My Lute, Awake! or The Lover Complaineth the Unkindness of his Love." Tottel's Miscellany: Songs and Sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Others, edited by Amanda Holton and Tom MacFaul. Penguin Classics, 2012.