Abstract: From the 1620s to the 1640s, the poetic vocation implied an identification with great models from the past, Tasso being one exemplary figure. What does this quarrel reveal about the reception of the humanist heritage in France, and about Tristan’s poetic consciousness? A careful reading of chapter II, 46 of the Page disgracié and the examination of its function in the general economy of the story allow us to understand what was at stake.
