Editing Antoine Héroet (section)

==Work==
His chief work is ''La Parfaicte Amye'' (Lyons, 1542) in which he developed the idea of a purely spiritual love, based chiefly on the reading of the Italian [[neoplatonism|Neo-Platonists]]. The book aroused great controversy. La Borderie replied in ''L'Amie de cour'' with a description of a very much more human woman, and Charles Fontaine contributed a ''Contr'amye de court'' to the dispute.<ref name="EB1911"/>

Héroet, in addition to some translations from the classics, wrote the ''Complainte d'une dame nouvellement surprise d'amour'', an ''Epistre a François I<sup>er</sup>'', and some pieces included in the now very rare ''Opuscules d'amour par Héroet'', ''La Borderie et autres divins poetes'' (Lyons, 1547). Héroet belongs to the [[Lyon]]nese school of which [[Maurice Scève]] may be regarded as the leader. [[Clément Marot]] praises him, and [[Pierre de Ronsard|Ronsard]] was careful to exempt him with one or two others from the scorn he poured on his immediate predecessors.<ref name="EB1911"/>