Травестия петраркизма: следы «Плеяды» во французской бурлескной поэме XVII в

Studia Litterarum. 2025. Т. 10. № 4. С. 92–117.

Golubkov A.

The object of research in this article is the “caprice” (burlesque poem) Melon (1634) by the French poet M.A.G. de Saint-Amant who at the end of the 17th century, despite the negative attitude of Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux to his work, was revered by the camp of the “Moderns” during the “the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns.” The starting point is a reflection on the negative attitude towards Pierre de Ronsard from both the “Moderns” and “Ancients” sides; the possible reason is the radically changed logic of the imitation. Then the analysis focuses on two anaphoric constructions of Saint-Amant that serve as means of amplification, dating back to sonnets 161 and 312 by Francis Petrarch, as well as translations and imitations by Ronsard and Joachim Du Bellay. In the course of the study, various mechanisms of the work of the poets of the Pleiades with the texts of Petrarch and Saint-Amant with the Petrarchist tradition are revealed: the burlesque “caprice” appears as a paraphrase with a distinct deformation of the original, which turns out to be a necessary condition for the author’s own work.

Keywords: Франция, France, литература зарубежья, international relations in literature and culture