Editing Maurice Scève (section)

{{Short description|French poet}}
[[File:Maurice Scève.jpg|thumb|alt=A woodcutting of a bust of Maurice Scève|Maurice Scève]]

'''Maurice Scève''' ({{Circa|1501}} – {{Circa|1564}}) was a French [[poet]] active in [[Lyon]] during the [[French Renaissance|Renaissance]] period. He was the centre of the Lyonnese côterie that elaborated the theory of spiritual love, derived partly from [[Plato]] and partly from [[Petrarch]]. This spiritual love, which animated [[Antoine Héroet]]'s ''Parfaicte Amye'' (1543) as well, owed much to [[Marsilio Ficino]], the Florentine translator and commentator of Plato's works.

Scève's chief works are ''Délie, objet de plus haulte vertu'' (1544); five anatomical blazons; the elegy ''Arion'' (1536) and the eclogue ''La Saulsaye'' (1547); and ''Microcosme'' (1562), an encyclopaedic poem beginning with the fall of man. Scève's epigrams, which have seen renewed critical interest since the late 19th century, were seen as difficult even in Scève's own day, although Scève was praised by Du Bellay Bellay, Ronsard, Pontus de Tyard and Des Autels for raising French poetry to new, higher aesthetic standards.{{Citation needed|date=April 2013}}