See also:

• MAURICE (1521–1553)
• MAURICE (MAURICIUS FLAVIUS TIBERIUS) (c. 539–602)
• MAURICE [or MAURITIUS], ST (d. c. 286)
• MAURICE, JOHN FREDERICK DENISON (1805-1872)

MAURICE See also:

• MAURICE SCEVE (c. 1500-1564)

SCEVE (c. 1500-1564)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• LYONS
• LYONS (Fr. Lyon)
• LYONS, COUNCILS OF
• LYONS, EDMUND LYONS, BARON (1790-1858)
• LYONS, RICHARD BICKERTON PEMELL LYONS, 1ST EARL (1817–1887)

Lyons, where his See also:

• FATHER

father practised See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law . Besides following his father's profession he was a painter, architect, musician and poet . He was the centre of the Lyonnese coterie that elaborated the theory of spiritual love, derived partly from See also:

• PLATO

Plato and partly from See also:

• PETRARCH (1304-1374)

Petrarch, which was enunciated in See also:

• ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

Antoine Heroet's Parfaicte Amye . See also:

• SCEVE, MAURICE (c. 1500-1564)

Sceve's See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• WORKS

works are Delie, objet de plus haulte vertu (1544); two eclogues, See also:

• ARLON

Arlon (1536) and La Saulsaye (1547) ; and Le Microcosme (1562), an encyclopaedic poem beginning with the fall of See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man . Delie consists of 450 dizaines and about 5o other poems in praise of his See also:

• MISTRESS

mistress . These poems, now little read, were even in Sceve's own See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day so obscure that his enthusiastic admirer See also:

• ETIENNE, CHARLES GUILLAUME (1778-1845)

Etienne See also:

• DOLET, ETIENNE (1509-1546)

Dolet confesses he could not understand them . Sceve was a musician as well as a poet, and cared very much for the musical value of the words he used . In this and in his erudition he forms a See also:

• LINK

link between the school of See also:

• MAROT
• MAROT, DANIEL (seventeenth century)

Marot and the P16iade . Delie (an See also:

• ANAGRAM (Gr. ava, back, and ypa(beiv, to write)

anagram for l'idee) set the See also:

• FASHION (adapted from Fr. facon, agon, Lat. factio, making, facere, to do or make)

fashion of a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of poems addressed to a mistress real or imaginary, followed by See also:

• RONSARD, PIERRE DE (1524-1585)

Ronsard in Cassandre and by Du Bellay in See also:

• OLIVE (Olea europaea)

Olive . The Lyonnese school of which Sceve was the See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader included his friend See also:

• CLAUDE, JEAN (1619-1687)

Claude de Taillemont and many See also:

• WOMEN

women writers df See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, Jeanne Gailiarde—placed by Marot on an equality with Christine de See also:

• PISAN, CHRISTINE DE (1364-c. 1430)

Pisan—Pernette du Guillet, Cl6mence de See also:

• BOURGES

Bourges and the poet's sisters, Claudine and Sibylle Sceve . Sceve died in 1564 . See also See also:

• LABE, LOUISE CHARLIN PERRIN (c. 1525-1566)

LABE, See also:

• LOUISE [AUGUSTE WILHELMINE AMALIE LUISE] (1776-1810)

LOUISE) .

See E . Bourciez, La Litterature polie et See also:

• LES

les mmeurs de cons sous See also:

• HENRI

Henri II (See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, 1886) ; Pernetti, Recherches pour semis d l'histoire de See also:

• LYON, MARY MASON (1797-1849)
• LYON, NATHANIEL (1818-1861)

Lyon (2 vols., Lyons, 1757) , and F . Brunetibre, " Un Pr6curseur de la Pleiade, See also:

• MAURICE (1521–1553)
• MAURICE (MAURICIUS FLAVIUS TIBERIUS) (c. 539–602)
• MAURICE [or MAURITIUS], ST (d. c. 286)
• MAURICE, JOHN FREDERICK DENISON (1805-1872)

Maurice Sceve," in his Etudes critiques, vol. vi . (1899) .