Abstract: Looking beyond the well-known legend of Pernette du Guillet, Maurice Scève’s student and muse, this critical edition reveals the independent voice of a poet who called into question the amorous doctrines of her time through her technical skill and her original conception of “amorous service.”
Keyword: Courtly love, Neoplatonism, Petrarchism, epigram, mythology, humanism, École lyonnaise, Jean Lemaire de Belges, Marguerite de Navarre, sixteenth-century literature
