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renaissance in france plan: 1. french literature in the 16th century 2. the elevation of the french language 3. major authors and influences the cultural field linking the middle ages and the early modern period is vast and complex in every sense. chronologically, there is no simple or single break across the turn of the century, though there is indeed among many writers of the period the sense of a cultural rebirth, or renaissance. the term, first used during the 18th century, was given currency in the 19th century by jacob burckhardt and jules michelet, who used it to describe what they perceived as a movement representing a clean break with the medieval past and inaugurating the forms and values of modern european secular and progressive nation-states. but the turn to antiquity was already visible in france in the 12th century, and echoes of classical literature and traces of latinizing …

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ll wrote and thought in latin, and neo-latin literature continued to thrive. even those who preferred the vernacular, however, saw themselves as heirs and contributors to a european as much as a local inheritance. erasmus, though born in rotterdam, holland, lived in france, england, and switzerland. the assignment of jean lemaire de belges to a particular country is equally difficult, for he was a walloon who wrote in french and traveled among various courts. during this period writers made many journeys, either by choice or by necessity. françois rabelais, joachim du bellay, and michel de montaigne all made the trip from france to italy. clément marot died in turin, and marc-antoine de muret, after a long exile, died in rome. this was a time of intensive and varied cultural exchanges, which focused on, for example, the crossroads city of lyon, turned as much toward italy as toward paris, or on …

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exts of renaissance humanism moved with equal speed, disseminating across europe the neoplatonism of marsilio ficino and the morality of plutarch and seneca, along with the poetic forms of ovid and horace. the elevation of the french language latin remained important as the language of diplomats, theologians, philosophers, and jurists; though the edict of villers-cotterêts (1539), requiring judgments in the law courts to be given solely in french, marked a turning point. erasmus polemicized in latin with the sorbonne or with luther. calvin used latin to write the first version of his christianae religionis institutio (1536; definitive latin version, 1559; institutes of the christian religion). petrus ramus (pierre de la ramée) created a sensation when, after earlier writings in latin, he produced his dialectique (1555; “dialectics”), the first major philosophical work in french. in 1562 his gramère (“grammar”) was a significant contribution to a host of new studies produced in …

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owers and the limits of sovereignty, published in french his six livres de la république (1576; the six books of a commonweale). the latin version of the work followed 10 years later. major authors and influences poetry clément marot () the art of clément marot, at least at the beginning of his career, took its inspiration and the forms to express it from the grands rhétoriqueurs, as in the allegorical poem “le temple de cupidon” (“the temple of cupid”). but aspects of humanism in his culture, life at court (a protégé of marguerite de navarre throughout his life, he succeeded his father as valet de chambre to francis i in 1527), and, above all, the events of his day gave his works a new dimension. practitioner of a wide range of forms—including the medieval fixed forms of the ballade and the rondeau, chansons, blasons (poems employing descriptive details to praise …

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neoplatonist and petrarchan love poetry, highly stylized in form, in which desire for an earthly beauty inflames the poet with an inspirational frenzy that elevates his creative powers and draws him toward the spiritual beauty, truth, and knowledge that she mirrors. in her euvres (1555; louise labé’s complete works), labé presents a collection of elegies, sonnets, and prose reversing the usual gender perspective and summoning other women to follow her example in search of poetic fame. the love poetry of the pléiade is in similar mode, as reflected in the sonnet cycles of du bellay (l’olive, 1549) and ronsard (from les amours [1552] to the sonnets pour hélène [1578, 1584, 1587; eng. trans. sonnets pour hélène]) and in the metrical experiments of baïf. it is more varied in its inspirations and in its technique; ronsard, for example, uses a wide range of classical models to write poems in different registers …

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renaissance in france plan: 1. french literature in the 16th century 2. the elevation of the french language 3. major authors and influences the cultural field linking the middle ages and the early modern period is vast and complex in every sense. chronologically, there is no simple or single break across the turn of the century, though there is indeed among many writers of the period the sense of a cultural rebirth, or renaissance. the term, first used during the 18th century, was given currency in the 19th century by jacob burckhardt and jules michelet, who used it to describe what they perceived as a movement representing a clean break with the medieval past and inaugurating the forms and values …

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