Jean Lemaire de Belges et Josse Bade

Personal relations between Jean Lemaire de Belges and Jesse Bade are only documented by a single letter of dedication sent by the printer to the historian, published in 1514 in a book that included two pamphlets against the Turks, for which Josse Bade thanks Lemaire. A careful examination of the printer's production in the years 1500-1515 reveals his marked interest for the same humanists who were the major points of reference for Jean Lemaire's historical culture: Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Niccolo Perotti, Annius de Viterbo, Jacopo F. Foresti, Sabellico, Pietro Crinito, Michele Riccio, Raphael de Volterra, and others. We can thus deduce that Lemaire shared Josse Bade's cultural preferences, and that he may even have had an influence on his editorial choices. Josse Bade's letter (which is published in this volume) shows how close the printer and the historiographer were in their approach to historical texts.