The 16th century Flashcards
What important events happened in 16th century France
Renaissance, Humanism, Reformation, scientific advances ( Copernicus, Ambroise Paré), printing development, rediscovery of Antiquity
Who was the king and patron fostering the new spirit of arts and letters
Francois I
Who did King Francois I bring from Italy to decorate the castle of Fontainebleau
Leonardo da vinci, Cellini, Titian, Primatice
What is humanism
European intellectual movement back to ancient culture
Who were the great scholars of humanism who translated, disseminated and analysed ancient texts
Erasmus, Guillaume Budé, Thomas More, Étienne Dolet
What do the humanists do
Make a break with medieval tradition and return to original writing stripped of its glosses
Who translated the Bible into German and who into French
Luther, Lefèvre d’Étaples
For whom was the only source of faith in the Bible and the authority of church was useless
Calvin
Who founded protestantism condemned by the Catholic church and french rulers
Calvin
Wars of religion bloodied the kingdom until when?
Until edict of Nantes (1598) by King Henry 4 which ensured freedom of worship for Protestants
Who was protected by Francois I
Clément Marot
Who was Clément Marot and what did he do
Translator of Ovid and petrarch , passed from medieval forms( ballads, roundel) to those of the Renaissance ( epistle, elegy, sonnet )
Who was the Lyon school inspired by
Petrarch
What does Maurice Scève do and what was his work
Celebrates platonic love in a long series of dizains with hermetic langauge like Délie, object of highest virtue
What did Pernette du Guillet do
Composed Rymes, an elegiac interior monologue
In which work does the woman suffer but also desire
Sonnets of Louis Labé
What is La Pléiade
Poetic breeding ground that sprawled at college de Coqueret, Paris
Who teached in college de Coqueret, paris
Hellenist Jean Dorat
What do students learn in college de Coqueret, paris
Learn italian, cultivate love of ancient lit, and place poetry above all genres
What is the idea of ‘in defence and illustration of the French language ‘ by Joachim du bellay
Du Bellay inivites scholars to write In French as it can express all. Lexicon must be enriched by putting back old words, using langauge of trade, borrowing from provincial dialects and creating words derived from Greek and Latin, style and form( versification, genres ) must be worked on, ancient writers translated and imitated
How diverse is the poetic work of du bellay. Give examples
Melancholic and lyrical, sometimes satirical. regrets, Antiquities of Rome
Who was the prince of poets
Ronsard
What does ronsard offer to poetry
Beautiful love sonnets where epicureanism is tinged with nostalgia of passing time
The Baroque expresses the anguish of an unstable world. NAME some baroque poets who drew on langauge to express that which is hidden
Phillipe Desportes, Guillaume du Bartas, Agrippa d’Aubigné
