Gilles d'Aurigny

Gilles d’Aurigny (also Daurigny, surnamed Le Pamphile, d. 1553) was a French poet and lawyer.

Born in Beauvais, he served as attorney to the Parlement in Paris.

He published a few legal treatises, such as Ordonnances des rois de France (1527, 1528) and Le Livre de police humaine (translation of a work by François Patrice, 1544).

His best-known work is Le Tuteur d'amour of 1546, a poem in decasyllabic verse, at the time noted for its elegant style and rich imagination.

Literary works: Spiritual works: Wilhelm Killmayer set one of his poems in his song cycle Blasons anatomiques du corps féminin in 1968.