Le Sang embaumé des roses: Sang et passion dans la poésie amoureuse de Pierre de Ronsard (review)
Italian community, formed a powerful relay in this spreading. The various and noted scholars who have contributed to the volume have almost left no stone unturned, from the most important poets (Marot, Scève, Du Bellay, Ronsard), to unknown poetasters or spare-time rhymesters, like Pierre Bricard, Claude Expilly, Jérôme d’Avost, and Jean-Édouard Du Monin, through a few female writers, for instance Louise Labé or — and now for a modest cough — Françoise Pautrard. It would not be exaggeration to write that every French sixteenth-century poet owed something to Petrarch, even unintentionally or whether they liked it or not. Divided into five sections (“Pétrarque à la cour de François I,” “L’expérience lyonnaise,” “Référence pétrarquienne et modèle ronsardien,” “Le retour à Pétrarque,” and “Pétrarquisme ‘fin de siècle’”), this important book could not, of course, be exhaustive, and some interesting people are forgotten, like Jean Ruyr, an unassuming translator of Petrarch, or the less-unassuming figure of Du Bartas. With its high standard of thoroughness, precision, and attention to detail, this invaluable collective work, covering a vast field and with very detailed analyses, brings together much useful information on its subject. GILLES BANDERIER Basel, Switzerland