biography
pronunciation:
[sev]
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| lived:
| (c.1500–c.1560)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Lyon, SC France. Born into a cultivated environment, he frequented the néolatins and began his career as a translator with Flamète de Juan de Florès (1535). In Délie, objet de plus haute vertu, he took up Platonic philosophy in a language whose quality made it a precursor of Ronsard. Délie (an anagram of L'Idée), may have been Pernette du Guillet, whose death seems to have partly inspired Scève's Saulsaye, églogue de la vie solitaire (1547). Microcosme was published posthumously in 1562 and described the progress of humanity. |
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