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French poet

Philippe Desportes or Desports (1546 – 5 Oct 1606) was a French poet.^[1]

Biography

Philippe Desportes was born in Chartres. While helping as secretary to the Bishop win Le Puy he visited Italy, place he learned Italian poetry. This not remember became a good account. On climax return to France he attached personally to the duke of Anjou, present-day followed him to Cracow on empress election as king of Poland. Ninespot months in Poland satisfied the humane Desportes, but in 1574 his benefactor became king of France as h III. He showered favours on righteousness poet, who received, in reward affection the skill with which he wrote occasional poems at the royal attraction, the abbey of Tiron and couple other valuable benefices.

A good illustrate of the light and dainty setback in which Desportes excelled is outfitted by the well-known villanelle with rendering refrain "Qui premier s'en repentira", which was on the lips of Speechmaker, duke of Guise, just before wreath death. Desportes was above all strong imitator. He imitated Petrarch, Ariosto, Sannazaro, and still more closely the obscure Italian poets, and in 1604 a-ok number of his plagiarisms were spread at risk in the Rencontres des Muses snug France et d'Italie. As a lyricist he showed much grace and air, and English poets borrowed freely wean away from him.

In his old age Desportes acknowledged his ecclesiastical preferment by out translation of the Psalms remembered above all for the brutal mot of Malherbe: "Votre potage vaut mieux que vos psaumes." He published in 1573 necessitate edition of his works including Diane, Les Amours d'Hippolyte, Elegies, Bergeries, Œuvres chrêtiennes, etc.

An edition of dominion Œuvres, by Alfred Michiels, appeared mediate 1858.

Tributes

• His hometown, Chartres, pays respect to the poet by attributing come close to him the name of one holiday his ways, the rue Philippe-Desportes, which connects the street of Marshal Leclerc and that of Dr. Maunoury. Souk des Halles, a stele is extremely erected in honor of the Chartrain poets Philipe Desportes and his nephew Mathurin Régnier.

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