Pernette du Guillet
Pernette du Guillet (* around 1520 in Lyon ; † July 7, 1545 ibid) was a French poet who is attributed to the so-called Lyoneser poet school.
She came from a noble family, enjoyed a good education and met Maurice Scève , 20 years her senior, in 1536 or 37 , who noticed her talent and encouraged her to try poetry. Their mutual love was no longer fulfilled, however, as Pernette was promised a nobleman named Du Guillet, to whom she was also married in 1537 or 38. Scève set a monument to her love, without naming Pernette, with his cycle of poems Délie (1544), probably begun in 1537 .
After her untimely death during a plague epidemic, in 1545 her husband and again a friend published her 40 poems, collected but with no recognizable order under the title Rymes de gentille et vertueuse dame, D. Pernette du Guillet, lyonnoise (verses of a noble and virtuous lady, Dame P. du G., from Lyon).
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guillet, you Pernette |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1520 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyon |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1545 |
| Place of death | Lyon |