The Family of Maurice Scève

John L. Gerig

doi:10.2307/456842

The Family of Maurice Scève

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John L. Gerig

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One of the earliest members of the important Scève family at Lyons was Henri Scève, great-grandfather of Maurice Scève, the leading poet of the Lyonnese renaissance. Henri, who was still living in 1471, seems to have had two sons, François and Léonard. Of François, the younger of these sons, we learn that about 1480 he suffered considerable damage à la barre du pont du Rosne tant pour la mortalité, gens d'armes, que pour les grans eaues.

In 1493, he possessed des prés et des terres labourables in the parish of Vaise. Ten years later (1503), he and his son were proprietors of the inn Ste-Catherine, which, however, was maloustru et mal prouffitant.

Type: Research Article
Information: PMLA , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , 1909 , pp. 470 - 475

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/456842 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1909

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^{page 470 note 1} In his excellent work on Maurice Scève et la Renaissance lyonnaise (Paris, Champion, 1906), M. Baur has failed to supply any new information concerning the family of the poet. For that reason it is hoped that the following notes may be of interest. Compare also my review of the above work in the Mod. Lang. Notes (November, 1908, pp. 229–231).

^{page 470 note 2} Archives communales de Lyon, CC 90.

^{page 470 note 3} Ibid., CC 480.

^{page 470 note 4} CC 18 and 110.

^{page 470 note 5} Bibl. nat., Cabinet de Titres, Cabinet de d'Hozier, 311.

^{page 470 note 6} Arch. com., CC 74.

^{page 470 note 7} Cab. de Titres, Pièces originales, 2698.

^{page 471 note 1} Arch. com., CC 4; 532; and 541.

^{page 471 note 2} Ibid., BB 370; CC 568 and 598.

^{page 471 note 3} BB 377; cf. also Les Oraisons doctorales de la St-Thomas, par A. Bleton, Lyon, 1891.

^{page 471 note 4} In 1512, he was taxed 14 livres, 9 sols and 7 livres, 4 sols; in 1513, 13 livres; in 1514, 17 livres, 2 sols. CC 116; 117; 122.

^{page 471 note 5} CC 627; 628; 632; 641; 644.

^{page 472 note 1} CC 22; 53.

^{page 472 note 2} CC 24; 37; and cf. Pernetti, i, pp. 317–20.

^{page 472 note 3} Cab. de Titres, Carrés de d'Hozier, 583.

^{page 472 note 4} Cf. Ste-Marthe's Poésie, Lyon, 1540, p. 157; L. de Vauzelles, Notice sur Mathieu de Vauzelles, 1870, p. 8; Cab. de d'Hoz., 311. In 1563, Henry Scève, contrerolleur ancien pour le Roy, has charge of the property of ses chers cousins Mathieu et Léonard de Vauzelles, enfantz héritiers de feu Mathieu de Vauzelles. CC 1118, etc.

^{page 472 note 5} BB 58.

^{page 473 note 1} Il Dante, // Con argomenti, & dechiaratio- / ne de molti luoghi, nuonamen- / et reuisto, & stampato. / In Lione, / Per Giouan di Tournes. / 1547. In-16 of 539 pp. Bibl. nat. Yd., 2117. Cf. pp. 3–4. Cf. also Picot, Les Français italia-nisants au XVI^e siècle, Paris, 1906, i, pp. 171–2.

^{page 473 note 2} Lyon, Sulpice Sabon, 1544, in 8°.

^{page 473 note 3} Lettere scritte a P. Aretino, Bologna, 1874, II, ii, p. 328; cf. also Picot, Ibid., i, pp. 156–7.

^{page 474 note 1} It is possible that Guillaume Scève, the wealthy Latin poet, was a son of Pierre. Cf. also CC 12; 53.

^{page 474 note 2} BB 370; CC 972, 996, 1085, etc.

^{page 474 note 3} CC 986; 1010; 1035.

^{page 474 note 4} Baudrier, Bibliographie lyonnaise, ii, p. 27. In 1597, there was a président et lieutenant-général en la sénéchaussée de Lyon by the name of Pierre de Scève. B 328.

^{page 474 note 5} BB 370; CC 119. Jean Coyaud loaned 20 livres for the ransom of François I^er in 1529, but died before 1535, when the sum was returned to his widow, Antonie Scève. CC 871.

^{page 474 note 6} CC 117; 55; 56, etc.

^{page 475 note 1} Lyon, Jean Saugrain, 1559, in 4to, Bibl. de Versailles, E 416c; Goujet, Biblioth. française, xi, p. 451; Picot, Ibid., i, p. 159.

^{page 475 note 2} Carrés de d'Hoz., 583. The Jean de Scève, sgr. de Froment et de Fléchières, conseiller du Roi, receveur-général de ses finances, échevin de Lyon, to whom Claude de Rubys addressed in 1603 the avant-propos of his Histoire véritable de la ville de Lyon (fo. 6) is possibly the seigneur de St-André mentioned above. Baudrier, Bibl. lyon., i, 311.

^{page 475 note 3} CC 116; 117; 253; 321, etc.

^{page 475 note 4} CC 116; 117; 253; 321, etc.; 261; 263; 748.

^{page 475 note 5} CC 12; 321; 322, etc.

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