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Les Amours, Pierre Ronsard, gallimard (1974), isbn 9782070321346 French Language, later printing...White glossy paperback in very good condition. Covers show slight wear mostly at edges, corners. Pages are crisp, clean, unmarked/folded. No creasing at spine, book probably unread....Les Amours de Ronsard, version of 1552. Les Amours de Cassandre is a collection of poems in decasyllables by Pierre de Ronsard from 1552. Ronsard sets the rules of the sonnet: two quatrains in which alternate male rhymes and female rhymes followed by two tercets whose rhymes are arranged in a conventional manner. Cassandre Salviati (1530-1607) is the daughter of Bernardo Salviati, one of François I's bankers. Cassandre is a young Italian girl met by the poet on April 21, 1545 in Blois at a court ball. She is only fifteen and he is twenty-one. Ronsard could not marry the young girl because he was a tonsured clerk. Cassandre married Jean Peigné, Lord of Pray the following year. He makes Cassandre his muse, celebrating an… Read More