Du Guillet, Pernette

Elizaveta Lyulekina (CUNY Graduate Center)

Ed. by Robert J. Hudson, Brigham Young University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.02: French Writing and Culture in the Renaissance, 1400-1600.
Vol. editors: Robert J. Hudson (Brigham Young University), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), Phillip John Usher (New York University), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

Born c. 1520
Died 17 Jul 1545

Places

Born in France
Active in France

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Pernette's Works

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Pernette Du Guillet (ca. 1520—17 July 1545) was a French poet active in Lyons in the 1540s. Her collection of love poems,

Rymes de gentile, et vertueuse dame D.Pernette Du Guillet, Lyonnoise

was published posthumously by the Lyonnais printer Jean de Tournes in 1545, its title was most likely chosen by the editors to convey the Petrarchan character of Pernette’s poetry. Apart from Petrarch, Du Guillet was greatly influenced by the courtly tradition, Neoplatonism, and the poetry of Clément Marot and Maurice Scève. The first edition of

Rymes

includes seventy poems by Du Guillet and is accompanied by Antoine Du Moulin’s preface “Aux dames lyonnaises”, a liminary poem by de Tournes, three epitaphs by Scève, and two epitaphs by Jean de Vauzelles. The collection was republished in…

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Citation: Lyulekina, Elizaveta. "Du Guillet, Pernette". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 January 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14041, accessed 22 November 2024.]