Maurice Scève
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Maurice Scève was a French poet active in Lyon during the Renaissance period. He was the centre of the Lyonnese côterie that elaborated the theory of spiritual love, derived partly from Plato and part
Maurice Scève
La magnifica et triumphale entrata del christianiss, 1549
Blazon (rhetoric)
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Blason is a form of poetry and rhetorical device where a subject—typically female—is itemized and described, typically using metaphor and simile, to idealize and beautify its subject.
Maurice Scève
…Labé, Clémence de Bourges and the poet's sisters, Claudine and Sybille Scève. Scève's first acclaim as a poet came in 1535, when he sent a pair of blasons to Marot in response to Le Blason du Beau Tétin. Le Sourcil ("The Eyebrow") and La Larme ("The Tear") were submitted as a part of a contest organized…
An illustration from the anti-romance Le Berger Extravagant (The extravagant shepherd); depicted is a satirical literalism of a blason