ABSTRACT
Louis Le Roy duly provided clarification: Guillaume Bude did not shrink from death out of a selfish excessive attachment to his own life — on the contrary, Bude's outstanding works of scholarship guaranteed his immortal fame and his piety secured the passage of his spirit to a better place. Le Roy organized his account of Bude's life neither strictly chronologically nor thematically, employing instead a hybrid form of composition that alternated between chronological segments and thematic digressions which serve as a kind of coda to them. The Gulielmi Budœi Vita did not just afford Le Roy the chance to bask in the reflected glory of the great Bude; even more importantly, it allowed him to introduce the philosophy of human history which would inform his mature writings. Le Roy's Vita traces the career of a model humanist; it therefore concentrates on his intellectual development.
