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Etienne Dolet represents the complexity of intellectual life in the first half of the sixteenth century: before his imprisonment in Paris in 1544, he is intensely active in Lyon between 1534 and 1544; orator, poet, historian, grammarian, linguist, translatologist, editor, publisher, and printer, he made the most of each of his competencies to build a very diversified oeuvre in only 10 years. The determination of his intellectual and religious positions is much more complex and uncertain. It would be a mistake to pin a simple label on them. The question whether Dolet was a “freethinker” or a “Gospel propagator” is not the right one. Etienne Dolet was a humanist; he died for being a humanist. Language will be at the heart of his thinking; he is a philologist and a philosopher because of language.
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Clément, M. (2019). Dolet, Etienne. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_295-2
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