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Maurice Scève

1501 - 1564

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Maurice Scève (c. 1501 – c. 1564) 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 partly from Petrarch. This spiritual love, which animated Antoine Héroet's Parfaicte Amye (1543) as well, owed much to Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine translator and commentator of Plato's works. Scève's chief works are Délie, objet de plus haulte vertu (1544); five anatomical blazons; the elegy Arion (1536) and the eclogue La Saulsaye (1547); and Microcosme (1562), an encyclopaedic poem beginning with the fall of man. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Scève is the 3,975th most popular writer (down from 3,899th in 2019), the 3,897th most popular biography from France (down from 3,839th in 2019) and the 492nd most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Maurice Scève ranks 3,975 out of 7,302. Before him are W. S. Gilbert, Georges Schehadé, Thomas Murner, Hans Carossa, Ugo Betti, and Hafez Ibrahim. After him are Marko Kropyvnytskyi, Shuntarō Tanikawa, Tarabai Shinde, Milovan Glišić, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, and Chandrashekhara Kambara.

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Among people born in 1501, Maurice Scève ranks 14. Before him are Garcilaso de la Vega, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Leonhart Fuchs, Bairam Khan, Ivan Susanin, and Perino del Vaga. After him are Hemu, and Francisco de Ulloa. Among people deceased in 1564, Maurice Scève ranks 14. Before him are Sabina of Bavaria, Charles Estienne, Giovanni da Udine, Éléonore de Roye, Theodore Bibliander, and Martim Afonso de Sousa.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Scève ranks 3,897 out of 6,770. Before him are Anne-Marie Colchen (1925), Michel Onfray (1959), Thomas Murner (1475), Guy Marchand (1937), Jérémy Mathieu (1983), and Henri Jobier (1879). After him are Pierre André de Suffren (1729), Jean Mouton (1459), Jeanne Jugan (1792), Esther Duflo (1972), Ernest Lavisse (1842), and Daniel Duval (1944).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Maurice Scève ranks 492. Before him are Frédéric Dard (1921), Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948), Emmanuel Bove (1898), Jane Dieulafoy (1851), Gabriel Chevallier (1895), and Thomas Murner (1475). After him are Jules Lemaître (1853), Marcel Arland (1899), Roger Vitrac (1899), Konrad Pellikan (1478), Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (1697), and Jacqueline de Romilly (1913).

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