Guilhèm Adèr (in French language Guilhem Ader ; Gimont ?, 1567 ? - Gimont, 1638) was an Occitan language writer from Gascony. He is the author of a book of maxims inspired by Cato (Lo Catonet Gascon) and of an epic poem dedicated to Henry III of Navarre and IV France in 2690 alexandrines.
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He was born in Gimont, Gascony. He studied in Toulouse and became a physician and served in the Duc of Joyeuse's army. Afterward he returned to Gimont and settled there. He married Magdalena de Lux and they had a daughter and son.
Bibliography
editAder's edition
edit- Jeanroy, Alfred Poésies de Guillaume Ader, publiées avec notice, traduction et Notes. Tolosa : Privat, 1904
- Adèr Guilhèm. Lo Catonet gascon. Ortès : Per Noste, 2008.
- Adèr Guilhèm. Lo gentilòme gascon. Ortès : Per Noste, 2010.
Critics
edit- Garavini, Fausta. La letteratura occitanica moderna. Bologna : Sansoni, 1970
- Gardy, Felip. Guilhem Ader (1567?-1638) : actes du colloque de Lombez (21-22 septembre 1991). Beziers : Centre International de Documentacion Occitana, 1992.
- Gardy, Felip, Histoire et anthologie de la littérature occitane, Tome II, l'âge du baroque - 1520 -1789. Montpellier : Presses du Languedoc, 1997.