Mellin de Saint-Gelais
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| - | *[[Clément Marot]], [[Blason du beau tétin]], [[Blason du laid tétin]], (1535). | + | '''Mellin de Saint-Gelais''' (or ''Melin de Saint-Gelays'' or ''Sainct-Gelais''; c. 1491 – October, 1558) was a [[France|French]] [[poet]] of the [[French Renaissance|Renaissance]] and [[Poet Laureate]] of [[Francis I of France]]. |
| - | *[[Maurice Scève]], Le front (1536). | + | |
| - | *[[Mellin de Saint-Gelais]], Blason de l'oeil, (1547). | + | |
| - | *[[Ronsard]], " Marie, vous avés la joue aussi vermeille… ", (1555) | + | |
| - | *[[Du Bellay]], " O beaux cheveux d'argent… ", (1556) | + | |
| - | *[[Pierre de Marbeuf]], L'Anatomie de l'oeil, (1625) | + | |
| - | *[[Paul Scarron]], "Vous faites voir des os quand vous riez, Heleine..." (1610-1660) | + | |
| - | *[[Paul Eluard]], La Courbe de tes yeux, (1926) | + | |
| - | *[[André Breton]], L'Union libre, (1931) | + | |
| - | *[[Georges Brassens]], Le Blason, (1960-62) | + | |
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| - | ''[[The Books in My Life]]'', New York: [[New Directions]], [[1952]] is a book by [[Henry Miller]]. | + | |
| - | <hr> | + | == Life == |
| - | ''[[Gargantua]]'' ''[[GP]]'' [[ass wipe]][[How Gargantua's wonderful understanding became known to his father Grangousier, by the invention of a torchecul or wipebreech]]. | + | He was born at [[Angoulême]], most likely the natural son of Jean de Saint-Gelais, marquis de Montlieu, a member of the [[Angoumois]] gentry. His forename was the French-Norman [[malapropism]] of the British wizard [[Merlin (wizard)|Merlin]] featured in [[King Arthur|Arthurian legends]]. He was close to his uncle [[Octavien de Saint-Gelais]] (1466-1502), [[bishop of Angoulême]] since 1494, himself a poet who had translated the ''[[Aeneid]]'' into [[French language|French]]. |
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| - | ''[[Mooi vies, knap lelijk. Grotesk realisme in rederijkerskluchten]]'' by [[Femke Kramer]] | + | |
| - | :"Sixteenth-century rederjiker farce invites us to partake of highly graphic scenes filled with raw and raucous sound and imagery: of bodies and their exterior and interior anatomy, wide extremes of emotion, as well as varied acts of violence, hinging and boozing, bizarre rituals, and hybrid creatures apparently composed of human and animal parts. When imagining the sound of the dialogues-in-performance, we can hear vibrant and ornate language enumerating at length foodstuffs, diseases, body parts, or blasphemies, macaronis incantations crowded with fanciful characters, or long-lasting exchanges of insults. In their farce-writing, the sixteenth-century rederijkers appear to have cultivated to a fine art the aesthetics of grotesque realism." | + | |
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| - | [[Villon]] (1431 - c. 1463) , [[Rabelais]] (c. 1494 - 1553) , [[Marot]] (1496–1544), [[Brantome]] (c. 1540–1614) [[Viau]] (1590 - 1626) , [[Scarron]] (1610 - 1660), [[Évremond]] (1610 - 1703) | + | |
| - | [[List of French-language authors]] | + | Mellin, who had studied at [[Bologna]] and [[Padua]], had the reputation of being doctor, [[astrologer]] and musician as well as poet. He returned to [[France]] around 1523, and soon gained favour at the court of the art-loving [[Valois Dynasty|Valois]] ruler Francis I by his skill in light verse. He was made almoner to the [[Dauphin of France|Dauphin]], abbot of [[Reclus]] in the [[diocese of Troyes]] and librarian to the king at [[Blois]]. |
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| - | [[libertinage]] - [[Cabinet satirique]] | + | |
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| - | :"Men vindt in ''[[L'Histoire Comique de Francion]]'' van [[Charles Sorel]] (1623) een prachtige [[tirade]] vóór het behoud van de erotiek en tegen deze woorden; drasties of humoristies bij [[Rabelais]], soldatesk en satyriek in de XVIe en XVIIe eeuw ([[Maynard]], [[d'Esternod]], [[Sigogne]]) worden zij in de [[libertijnse romans]] van de XVIIIe eeuw meer en meer vervangen door z.g. poëtiese en bloemrijke [[perifrase]]n, die weldra belachelik aandoen; en toch kan men bij een auteur als [[Nerciat]] zien hoeveel een roman met perifrasen (''[[Félicia]]'', ''[[Le Doctorat Impromptu]]'') aan werkelike erotiek wint boven een roman met de schokkende woorden (''[[Le Diable au corps (1786) |Le Diable au Corps]]'', ''[[Les Aphrodites]]''). --[[E. du Perron]] | + | |
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| - | :"A Paris, [[Jules Gay]] avait donné sous le [[Second Empire]] quelques réimpressions d'œuvres qu'on peut considérer comme les classiques du [[second rayon]]." --''[[Les diables amoureux]]'' by [[Guillaume Apollinaire]] | + | |
| - | <hr> | + | He enjoyed immense popularity until the appearance of [[Joachim du Bellay]]'s ''Défense et illustration...'' in 1549, where Saint-Gelais was not excepted from the scorn poured on contemporary poets. He attempted to ridicule the innovators by reading aloud the ''Odes'' of [[Pierre de Ronsard]] with burlesque emphasis before [[Henry II of France|Henry II]], when the king's sister, [[Marguerite de Valois]], seized the book and read them herself. |
| - | [[Émile Henriot]], ''[[Les livres du second rayon : irréguliers et libertins]]'', Paris : le Livre, 1926 | + | |
| + | Ronsard accepted Saint-Gelais's apology for this incident, but Du Bellay satirized the offender in the ''Poète courtisan''. He translated the ''[[Sophonisbe|Sofonisba]]'' of [[Gian Giorgio Trissino]] (1478-1550) which was represented in 1556 before [[Catherine de' Medici]] at Blois. Saint-Gelais was the champion of the ''style marotique'' (see [[Clément Marot]]) and the earliest of French [[sonnet]]eers. He died in Paris in 1558. | ||
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Mellin de Saint-Gelais (or Melin de Saint-Gelays or Sainct-Gelais; c. 1491 – October, 1558) was a French poet of the Renaissance and Poet Laureate of Francis I of France.
Life
He was born at Angoulême, most likely the natural son of Jean de Saint-Gelais, marquis de Montlieu, a member of the Angoumois gentry. His forename was the French-Norman malapropism of the British wizard Merlin featured in Arthurian legends. He was close to his uncle Octavien de Saint-Gelais (1466-1502), bishop of Angoulême since 1494, himself a poet who had translated the Aeneid into French.
Mellin, who had studied at Bologna and Padua, had the reputation of being doctor, astrologer and musician as well as poet. He returned to France around 1523, and soon gained favour at the court of the art-loving Valois ruler Francis I by his skill in light verse. He was made almoner to the Dauphin, abbot of Reclus in the diocese of Troyes and librarian to the king at Blois.
He enjoyed immense popularity until the appearance of Joachim du Bellay's Défense et illustration... in 1549, where Saint-Gelais was not excepted from the scorn poured on contemporary poets. He attempted to ridicule the innovators by reading aloud the Odes of Pierre de Ronsard with burlesque emphasis before Henry II, when the king's sister, Marguerite de Valois, seized the book and read them herself.
Ronsard accepted Saint-Gelais's apology for this incident, but Du Bellay satirized the offender in the Poète courtisan. He translated the Sofonisba of Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478-1550) which was represented in 1556 before Catherine de' Medici at Blois. Saint-Gelais was the champion of the style marotique (see Clément Marot) and the earliest of French sonneteers. He died in Paris in 1558.
