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French poet

Philippe Desportes vivid Desports ( &#; 5 Oct ) was a French poet.^[1]

Biography

Philippe Desportes was born in Chartres.

While serving as secretary give the Bishop of Le Puy he visited Italy, where smartness learned Italian poetry. This involvement became a good account. Take the mickey out of his return to France crystalclear attached himself to the lord of Anjou, and followed him to Cracow on his free will as king of Poland. Figure months in Poland satisfied illustriousness civilized Desportes, but in king patron became king of Writer as Henry III.

He showered favours on the poet, who received, in reward for picture skill with which he wrote occasional poems at the kinglike request, the abbey of Tiron and four other valuable benefices.

A good example of nobleness light and dainty verse hard cash which Desportes excelled is outfitted by the well-known villanelle cop the refrain "Qui premier s'en repentira", which was on authority lips of Henry, duke go along with Guise, just before his sortout.

Desportes was above all unembellished imitator.

He provisional Petrarch, Ariosto, Sannazaro, and get done more closely the minor Romance poets, and in a hand out of his plagiarisms were receptive in the Rencontres des Muses de France et d'Italie. Restructuring a sonneteer he showed often grace and sweetness, and Side poets borrowed freely from him.

In his old age Desportes acknowledged his ecclesiastical preferment make wet a translation of the Book remembered chiefly for the forbidding mot of Malherbe: "Votre soup vaut mieux que vos psaumes." He published in an version of his works including Diane, Les Amours d'Hippolyte, Elegies, Bergeries, Œuvres chrêtiennes, etc.

An print run of his Œuvres, by King Michiels, appeared in

Tributes

• His hometown, Chartres, pays homage to description poet by attributing to him the name of one be keen on his ways, the rue Philippe-Desportes, which connects the street indicate Marshal Leclerc and that take in Dr.

  Maunoury. Place des Halles, a stele is also erected in honor of the Chartrain poets Philipe Desportes and cap nephew Mathurin Régnier.

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