{"id":8547,"date":"2023-12-08T16:01:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T15:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bnuto.cultura.gov.it\/patrimoine\/dono-mayor\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:57:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:57:36","slug":"cadeau-mayor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bnuto.cultura.gov.it\/fr\/patrimoine\/cadeau-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Cadeau Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2455 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bnuto.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Mayor-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bnuto.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Mayor-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/bnuto.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Mayor.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1825-1910) \u00e9tait un latiniste, hell\u00e9niste et activiste britannique. N\u00e9 \u00e0 Baddegama en Celyon britannique (dans l&#8217;actuel Sri Lanka), il est le fils du r\u00e9v\u00e9rend John Major et de Charlotte Bickersteth. Jeune homme, il est venu en Angleterre pour \u00e9tudier, d&#8217;abord \u00e0 l&#8217;\u00e9cole de Shrewsbury, puis au St John&#8217;s College de Cambridge. Mayor a pass\u00e9 sa vie professionnelle \u00e0 l&#8217;universit\u00e9 de Cambridge, d&#8217;abord comme biblioth\u00e9caire (1863-1867), puis comme titulaire de la chaire de latin de 1872 \u00e0 1900.<\/p>\n<p>Sp\u00e9cialiste des litt\u00e9ratures grecque et latine, il est surtout connu pour trois ouvrages : le Bibliographical Clue to Latin Literature (1875), une \u00e9dition pr\u00e9cieuse de treize satires de Juv\u00e9nal (1889) et l&#8217;\u00e9dition critique de la deuxi\u00e8me philippique de Cic\u00e9ron (1888). En 1883, Mayor, qui \u00e9tait v\u00e9g\u00e9tarien et abstinent, devint pr\u00e9sident de la Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom et publia dans les ann\u00e9es suivantes la monographie What is Vegetarianism ? (1886) et plus tard le recueil Plain Living and High Thinking (1897) qui comprenait tous ses \u00e9crits sur le v\u00e9g\u00e9tarisme. Il meurt \u00e0 l&#8217;\u00e2ge de 85 ans \u00e0 Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p>A l&#8217;occasion de l&#8217;incendie de 1904, le professeur Mayor fit don \u00e0 la Biblioth\u00e8que nationale universitaire de Turin (AsBnuto, fald. 19, fasc. I.D-8) d&#8217;environ 200 livres, pour la plupart anciens (1602-1830), en diff\u00e9rentes langues (fran\u00e7ais, anglais, italien, allemand et, bien s\u00fbr, grec ancien et latin). La plupart des livres donn\u00e9s \u00e0 la biblioth\u00e8que concernaient des sujets religieux &#8211; trait\u00e9s th\u00e9ologiques et moraux, commentaires bibliques, histoire de l&#8217;\u00c9glise, \u00e9crits des saints &#8211; mais il y avait aussi des \u0153uvres de litt\u00e9rature classique, comme les trag\u00e9dies de Sophocle ou les aphorismes d&#8217;Hippocrate.<\/p>\n<p>John Mayor envoie \u00e9galement \u00e0 Turin trois ouvrages qu&#8217;il a \u00e9crits : Spain, Portugal, The Bible (Cambridge, 1892), The Spanish reformed church (Cambridge, 1895) et Sound Mind In Body Sound (Manchester, 1901), un recueil de passages de la Bible et de po\u00e8tes anglais faisant l&#8217;\u00e9loge de la vie simple et de la relation entre la nature et l&#8217;homme. Le th\u00e8me de la nature \u00e9tait tr\u00e8s cher \u00e0 Mayor, qui \u00e9tait v\u00e9g\u00e9tarien : parmi les ouvrages donn\u00e9s \u00e0 la biblioth\u00e8que de Turin figurent The Logic Of Vegetarianism de Henry Salt, un trait\u00e9 justifiant le choix du v\u00e9g\u00e9tarisme, et Manchester Vegetarian Lectures, un recueil de conf\u00e9rences donn\u00e9es par diverses personnalit\u00e9s sous le patronage de la Vegetarian Society au cours de l&#8217;hiver 1887-1888.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-btn-wrapper align_none\"><a class=\"w-btn us-btn-style_2 us_custom_d2199d32\" href=\"\/laculturadeldono\/\"><span class=\"w-btn-label\">La biblioth\u00e8que Mayor num\u00e9ris\u00e9e<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1825-1910) \u00e9tait un latiniste, hell\u00e9niste et activiste britannique. 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