Dupuy, Claude

Abstract

Claude Dupuy was a jurist, a humanist, and a bibliophile (Dupuy et al. 2001). He trained in Paris under prominent scholars like Jean Dorat, Adrien Turnèbe, and Denis Lambin, completed his studies in jurisprudence at the University of Toulouse, and was a pupil of Jacques Cujas in Bourges. He travelled in Italy between 1570 and 1571. Gian Vincenzo Pinelli in Padua, Carlo Sigonio in Bologna, and Fulvio Orsini in Rome were among the most important connections he made during this time. He was based in Paris for most of his professional life, mixing his duties at the Parlement as avocat and later conseiller with his passion for the letters. He was of a sickly constitution and died of kidney stone disease at 49 years of age. His wife Claude Sanguin bore him eight children, two of which, Pierre and Jacques, were prominent bibliophiles in the Parisian circles of the seventeenth century.