Maurice Scève
French poet · France · On the map · Writers · Lived 1501 to 1564 · aged 63
Maurice Scève 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.
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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.
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France
Category
Writers
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Status
Deceased
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Lived 1501 to 1564 · aged 63
