Editing Étienne Dolet (section)

==Early life and education==
Born in 1509 to parents who are not known to modern historians, Dolet lived in Orléans until the age of twelve. He was able to secure a very solid education because influential "and perhaps wealthy patronage ... made provision for his education, mainly at Padua and Toulouse, with apparently few privations due to lack of means."<ref name=":2" /> Accordingly, in 1521, he left for Paris, where he studied Latin for five years with Nicolas Bérault, who also taught [[Gaspard II de Coligny]]. 

In 1526, following the humanist tradition of the time, he began a tour of European universities. First, he went to Padua to perfect his knowledge of Latin and especially of the [[Cicero]]' writings. He did this under the direction of his master and friend, Simon de Villanova. On the death of Villanova, Étienne Dolet served as secretary to Jean de Langeac, bishop of Limoges and French ambassador to the Republic of Venice. There he followed [[Battista Egnazio]]'s lessons on Cicero, who became for Dolet his “master of writing and often of thought”.<ref>André Séguenny, Baden-Baden, Editions Valentin Koerner, 1984, 208 <abbr>p.</abbr> <small>(ISBN 3-87320-095-3)</small>, <abbr>p.</abbr> 53.</ref> He stayed in Venice for a year, leaving when Langeac's ambassadorship came to an end. During this time, Dolet also found time to write [[Latin language|Latin]] love poems to a Venetian woman named Elena.<ref name=":6">{{Cite book |last=Bourneville |first=Désiré Magloire |title=Étienne Dolet:sa vie, ses oeuvres, son martyre. Foreword to conference proceedings held in the Ve arrondissement of Paris on 18 May 1889 |date=1889 |publisher=Siège de la Libre-Pensée du Ve Arrondissement |location=Paris |language=FR |chapter=Étienne Dolet: Martyre de la Renaissance |chapter-url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k744563/f3.item.r=etienne%20dolet}}</ref>

He returned soon afterwards to [[University of Toulouse|Toulouse]], where he studied [[law]] from 1532 to 1534.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cameron |first=Pierre |date=2012 |title=Review of Étienne Dolet 1509-2009. Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance 98 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43446641 |journal=Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme |volume=35 |issue=4 |pages=145–148 |jstor=43446641 |issn=0034-429X}}</ref>