Du Guillet, Pernette (c.1518-1545). Poet from Lyon, author of a single volume of Rymes, published posthumously in 1545 by Jean de Tournes at her husband's request. Du Guillet's association with Scève is well known and their poems contain reciprocal allusions, though she owes more to Marot and the Rhétoriqueurs than to him. Her small collection embraces several different metres and genres: 60 epigrams (dizains and huitains), 10 chansons, five elegies, and two épîtres. Her love is seen as predestined, a mixture of chaste Platonic idealism and desire frankly expressed; although sometimes prosaic and unimaginative, she shows sensitivity and an independent spirit.
[Peter Sharratt]
