Chapter III: Book II: The Renaissance

CHAP. I. VILLON, COMINES, AND THE LATER FIFTEENTH CENTURY 155

The Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Characteristics of Fifteenth-century Literature. Villon. Comines. Coquillart. Baude. Martial d'Auvergne. The Rhetoriqueurs. Chansons du xv'eme Siecle. Preachers.

II. MAROT AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES 168

Hybrid School of Poetry. Jean le Maire. Jehan du Pontalais. Roger de Collerye. Minor Predecessors of Marot. Clement Marot. The School of Marot. Mellin de Saint-Gelais. Miscellaneous Verse. Anciennes Poesies Francaises.

III. RABELAIS AND HIS FOLLOWERS 183

Fiction at the beginning of the Sixteenth Century. Rabelais. Bonaventure des Periers. The Heptameron. Noel du Fail. G. Bouchet. Cholieres. Apologie pour Herodote. Moyen de Parvenir.

IV. THE PLEIADE 196

Character and Effects of the Pleiade Movement. Ronsard. The Defense et Illustration de la Langue Francaise. Du Bellay. Belleau. Baif. Daurat, Jodelle, Pontus de Tyard. Magny. Tahureau. Minor Ronsardists. Du Bartas. D'Aubigne. Desportes. Bertaut.

V. THE THEATRE FROM GRINGORE TO GARNIER 216

Gringore. The last Age of the Mediaeval Theatre. Beginnings of the Classical Drama. Jodelle. Minor Pleiade Dramatists. Garnier. Defects of the Pleiade Tragedy. Pleiade Comedy. Larivey.

VI. CALVIN AND AMYOT 228

Prose Writers of the Renaissance. Calvin. Minor Reformers and Controversialists. Preachers of the League. Amyot. Minor Translators. Dolet. Fauchet. Pasquier. Henri Estienne. Herberay. Palissy. Pare. Olivier de Serres.

VII. MONTAIGNE AND BRANTOME 241

Disenchantment of the late Renaissance. Montaigne. Charron. Du Vair. Bodin and other Political Writers. Brantome. Montluc. La Noue. Agrippa d'Aubigne. Marguerite de Valois. Vieilleville. Palma-Cayet. Pierre de l'Estoile. D'Ossat. Sully. Jeannin. Minor Memoir-writers. General Historians.

VIII. THE SATYRE MENIPPEE. REGNIER 259

Satyre Menippee. Regnier.

INTERCHAPTER II. SUMMARY OF RENAISSANCE LITERATURE 270