Pernette du Guillet

Pernette du Guillet (* 1520 in Lyon, † July 7, 1545 ibid ) was a French poet, which is attributed to the so-called Lyons school of poetry.

She came from a noble family, enjoyed a good education and learned 1536 or 37 to 20 years older Maurice Sceve know who noticed her talent and encouraged her to lyrical attempts. However, their mutual love was no longer fulfilling because Pernette was promised to a nobleman named You Guillet, with which it was in 1537 or 38 and married. Sceve put their love without mentioning Pernette by name, a monument with his well- begun in 1537 poem cycle Delie ( 1544).

After her untimely death during a plague epidemic in 1545 gave her husband and again in 1546, a friend collected her 40 poems, but in no apparent order with the title Rymes de gentille et vertueuse lady, D. Pernette du Guillet, lyon noise ( verses a noble and virtuous lady, Dame du P. G., Lyon ).