« Éros mélancolique ». La folie d’amour chez les poètes de la fin du XVIe siècle

Abstract

The article proposes to show how the poets of the late sixteenth century give new energy to the paradigm of love madness that runs through the literary tradition, from the desperate heroes of the Greco-Latin pastoral to the Roland Furious, not forgetting the “fools-for-love” of the courtly Middle Ages, by taking advantage of expanding philosophic-medical knowledge and a demonic imaginary in vogue.