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Mellin de Saint-Gelais (or
Melin de Saint-Gelays or
Sainct-Gelais; c.
1491 – October,
1558) was a
French poet of the
Renaissance and
Poet Laureate of
Francis I of France.
Life
He was born at
Angoulême, most likely the natural son of Jean de Saint-Gelais, marquis de Montlieu, a member of the
Angoumois gentry. His forename was the French-Norman
malapropism of the British wizard
Merlin featured in
Arthurian legends. He was close to his uncle
Octavien de Saint-Gelais (1466-1502),
bishop of Angoulême since 1494, himself a poet who had translated the
Aeneid into
French.
Mellin, who had studied at
Bologna and
Padua, had the reputation of being doctor,
astrologer and musician as well as poet. He returned to
France around
1523, and soon gained favour at the court of the art-loving
Valois ruler Francis I by his skill in light verse. He was made almoner to the
Dauphin, abbot of
Reclus in the
diocese of Troyes and librarian to the king at
Blois.
He enjoyed immense popularity until the appearance of
Joachim du Bellay's
Défense et illustration... in
1549, where Saint-Gelais wasn't excepted from the scorn poured on contemporary poets. He attempted to ridicule the innovators by reading aloud the
Odes of
Pierre de Ronsard with burlesque emphasis before
Henry II, when the king's sister,
Marguerite de Valois, seized the book and read them herself.
Ronsard accepted Saint-Gelais's apology for this incident, but Du Bellay satirized the offender in the
Poète courtisan. He translated the
Sofonisba of
Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478-1550) which was represented in 1556 before
Catherine de' Medici at Blois. Saint-Gelais was the champion of the
style marotique (see
Clément Marot) and the earliest of French
sonneteers. He died in Paris in 1558.
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