The Earlier Renaissance (Volume 5) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 176 CHAPTER III. FROM RHETORIC TO PLEIAD. SOME BACKWARDNESS IN THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE ? THE " RHETORI- QUEUR " SCHOOL?THB ARTIFICIAL FORMS OF POETRY?THE ITALIAN INFLUENCE ? SUB-PEIUODS ? MINOR WRITERS OF THE EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY ? COLLKRYE, BOUCHET, JEHAN DU PONTALAIS ? CLEMENT MAROT?HIS LIFE?CHARACTER AND IMPORTANCE OF HIS POETRY?THE ' PSALMS AND OTHER WORK?RABELAIS?THE PROBLEM OF HIM?HIS LIFE?' GARGANTUA " AND PANTAGRUEL '?THEIR GENERAL FORM AND SCHEME?FANTASTIC NOTIONS ON THE SUBJECT ? REALLY A SATIRICAL CRITICISM OF LIFE?COMPARATIVE QUALITY OF THE SATIRE-?THE STYLE ? SHORT RUNNING COMMENTARY ? GENERAL REMARKS ? CALVIN?VALUE OF THE 'INSTITUTION1 IN STYLE?MINORITIES OF THE MID-CENTURY?MARGUERITE DE VALOIS ?THE ' HEPTAMERON ' ? BONAVENTURE DBS PERIERS ? THE ' NOU- VELLES RECREATIONS ' ? THE ' CYMBALUM MUNDI' ? MELLIN DH SAINT-OELAIS?MAGNY, TAHUREAU, LOUISE LABE. In passing from Italy to France we pass, once for all, from the mistress to the scholars; and we enter on the subject-matter strictly indicated by the title of our volume, as far as the vernaculars are concerned. The first half of the sixteenth century, we have freely admitted, is not the period of the Early Eenaissance in Italy; there is no reasonable doubt or controversy that it is the period of the Early Eenaissance in France. It is rather remarkable that the Humanism which ushered the vernacular Eenaissance in all countries some back- should have been less noticeable and later 2rFrenT in France than anywhere else. The fact is Renaissance, not doubtful; the study of Greek ? the Humanist sine qua non?was, by all trustworthy witness, much later than in Italy, later even than in Germany and in England. But this fact is susceptible, if not of explanation, of a certain amount of illustrative comment. Franc...