Editing Maurice Scève (section)

==Work==
[[File:Houghton Typ 515.49.772 - Scève, title.jpg|thumb|''La magnifica et triumphale entrata del christianiss'', 1549]]
Scève's first acclaim as a poet came in 1535, when he sent a pair of [[Blason|''blasons'']] to [[Clément Marot|Marot]] in response to ''Le Blason du Beau Tétin''. ''Le Sourcil'' ("The Eyebrow") and ''La Larme'' ("The Tear") were submitted as a part of a contest organized by Marot while in exile in [[Ferrara]]; the former was judged the winner, gaining notoriety for Scève in both France and Italy. These two poems were published along with others from the contest in 1536. Three additional Scève ''blasons'' (''Le Front'', ''La Gorge'' and ''Le Soupir'') were published in the 1539 edition.<ref name='mulhauser' /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/rmds/portfolio/gordon/emblem/blasons.html|work=Renaissance In Print, Gordon Collection, U.Va. Library|accessdate= 28 April 2013|title=Blasons et Contreblasons}}</ref>

''Délie'', Scève's most notable work, consists of 449 ''dizains'' (10-line epigrammes) preceded by a dedicatory ''huitain'' (8-line poem) to his mistress ("A sa Délie"). The title is sometimes understood to be an anagram for ''l'idée'' ("the idea"). ''Délie'' is the first French "canzoniere" or poetic collection modeled after Petrarch's immensely-popular ''[[Il Canzoniere|Canzoniere]]'', a series of love poems addressed to a Lady.{{Citation needed|date=April 2013}}

Scève was also responsible for the translation of a sentimental novel, ''Grimalte y Gradissa'' by [[Juan de Flores]], published as ''La Déplorable fin de Flamète'' in 1535, which was inspired by [[Giovanni Boccaccio]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/rmds/portfolio/gordon/literary/sceve/|work=Renaissance In Print, Gordon Collection, U.Va. Library|accessdate= 28 April 2013|title=Maurice Scève (1501-c.1560)}}</ref>

Scève was a well versed musician as well as a poet; he 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 [[Clément Marot|Marot]] and the [[La Pléiade|Pléiade]].<ref name='appelbaum'>{{cite book|author=Stanley Appelbaum|title=Introduction to French Poetry|year=1991|url=https://archive.org/details/introductiontofr00appe|url-access=registration|location=Mineola, New York|publisher=Dover Publications, Inc. 1991|page=[https://archive.org/details/introductiontofr00appe/page/25 25]}}</ref>