Guillaume Alexis

Guillaume Alexis (precise birth and death dates unknown) was a French Benedictine monk and poet of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, nicknamed the "Good Monk". His abbey was that at Lire (La Vieille-Lyre), in the diocese of Évreux, He became prior of Bussy, in Perche. In 1486 he went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem[1] and died there, a victim of Ottoman persecution.

Works

Guillaume Alexis was a poet of a very live style, who literary critics rank with the successors of François Villon.

Jean de La Fontaine admired his poetry.[1]

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Bibliography

Michel-André Bossy, Woman's Plain Talk in Le Débat de l'omme et de la femme by Guillaume Alexis. (Le franc-parler féminin dans "Le Débat de l'homme et de la femme" de Guillaume Alexis), Fifteenth-Century Studies 16 (1990): 23-41.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Citations et commentaires du poème de Claude-Pierre Goujet
  2. List of works published before 1601 Norman Ross, New-York
  3. Attending to Early Modern Women VI
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