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Maurice ScveMaurice Scve (c. 1500-1564), French poet, was born at Lyons, where his father practised law. Besides following his father's profession he was a painter, architect, musician and poet. He was the centre of the Lyonnese côterie that elaborated the theory of spiritual love, derived partly from Plato and partly from Petrarch, which was enunciated in Antoine Hroet's Parfaicte Amye. Scve's chief works are Dlie, objet de plus haulte vertu (1544); two eclogues, Anon (1536) and La Saulsaye (1547); and La Microcosme (1562), an encyclopaedic poem beginning with the fall of man. Dlie consists of 450 dizaines and about 50 other poems in praise of his mistress. These poems, later little read, were even in Scve's own day so obscure that his enthusiastic admirer Etienne Dolet confesses he could not understand them. Scve was a musician as well as a poet, and cared very much for the musical value of the words he used, in this and in his erudition he forms a link between the school of Marot and the Pliade. Dlie (an anagram for l'ide) set the fashion of a series of poems addressed to a mistress real or imaginary, followed by Ronsard in Cassandre and by Du Bellay in Olive. The Lyonnese school of which Scve was the leader included his friend Claude de Taillemont and many women writers of verse, Jeanne Gaillarde--placed by Marot on an equality with Christine de Pisan, Pernette du Guillet, Clmence de Bourges and the poet's sisters, Claudine and Sibyile Scve. Scve died in 1564. See also Louise Labe. See E Bourciez, La Littrature polie at les nuvurs de cour sous Henri II (Paris, 1886); Pernetti, Recherches pour servir de l'histoire de Lyon (2 vols., Lyons, 1757), and F Brunetibre, "Un Prcurseur de la Pliade, Maurice Scve," in his Etudes critiques, vol. vi. (1899). Scve, Maurice Scve, Maurice Scve, Maurice
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