DESPORTES, PHILIPPE (1546-1606)

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DESPORTES, PHILIPPE (1546-1606) , French poet, was born at Chartres in 1546. As secretary to the bishop of Le Puy he visited Italy, where he gained a knowledge of Italian poetry afterwards turned to good account. On his return to France he attached himself to the duke of Anjou, and followed him to Warsaw on his election as king of Poland. Nine months in Poland satisfied the civilized Desportes, but in 1574 his patron became king of France as

Henry

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III. He showered favours on the poet, who received, in reward for the skill with Which he wrote occasional poems at the royal request, the abbey of Tiron and four other valuable benefices. A good example of the light and dainty verse in which Desportes excelled is furnished by the well-known

villanelle

VILLANELLE

with the refrain " Qui premier s'en repentira," which was on the lips of

Henry

, duke of Guise, just before his tragic death. Desportes was above all an imitator. He imitated Petrarch, Ariosto,

Sannazaro

SANNAZARO, JACOPO (1458-1530)

, and still more closely the

minor

Italian poets, and in 16o4 a number of his plagiarisms were exposed in the Rencontres des Muses de France et d'Italie. As a sonneteer he showed much grace and sweetness, and English poets borrowed freely from him. In his old age Desportes acknowledged his ecclesiastical preferment by a

translation

TRANSLATION

of
the Psalms remembered chiefly for the brutal mot of

Malherbe

MALHERBE, FRANCOIS DE (1555-1628)

: " Votre potage vaut mieux que vos psaumes." Desportes died on the 5th of October 16o6. He had published in 1573 an edition of his works including Diane, Les Amours d'Hippolyte, Elegies, Bergeries, fEuvres chretiennes, &c.
An edition of his fEuvres, by Alfred Michiels, appeared in 1858.

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