1. Lecture 3: The Impact of Italy: The French Renaissance at Court

2. The Impact of Italy: The French Renaissance at Court I.Francis I: Patron of Letters? II.French Humanism III.The French Court IV.French Châteaux and the New Artistic Styles V.The Problem of Italy

3. Mini-Assignment, due Wednesday in class *Both Rabelais and Navarre wrote fictional works that are meant to be entertaining, but they also had serious points they were trying to express. Choose one of these authors and write a couple of sentences on one important point s/he was making about his/her society and the way people should live in it. Choose and copy out one quotation that illustrates your view. * Please print out this assignment and be ready to turn it in during class, immediately following our discussion.

4. François Rabelais, Pantagruel (1532) Gargantua tells his son, Pantagruel: “The times were still so dark, and mankind was perpetually reminded of the miseries and disasters wrought by those Goths who had destroyed all sound scholarship [after the fall of the Roman Empire]. But, thanks to God, learning has been restored in my age to its former dignity and enlightenment.”

5. Jacques Amyot, bishop and humanist Amyot: Francis I “happily established and began the task in this noble realm of bringing good letters to a new birth and flower…” What caused the French Renaissance?

6. French Renaissance Terms Studia humanitatis (study of the humanities) Francesca Petrarch (1304-1374) Models of Cicero, Virgil New (revived) genres and areas of study Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples

7. Guillaume Budé Portrait of Budé by Jean Clouet Guillaume Budé, Commentaries on the Greek Language (1529). Title page of the first edition.

8. Symphorien Champier publishes a description of the works of the Greek philosophers Plato, Aristotle, and Galen French Interest in Neo-platonism

9. French Interest in Education Erasmus, Declamation Concerning Education (French trans, 1537) Jacques Sadolet Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus by Hans Holbein the Younger

10. Anonymous illustration of Antoine Macault reading his translation of Diodorus of Sicily to Francis I and his court

11. Collège de France, founded 1530

12. Library of Henri II at the Château of Fontainebleau

13. Important Women at the Court of Francis I Louise of Savoy, mother of Francis I Francis I and his sister, Marguerite de Navarre, playing chess

14. Influence of The Courtier Baldassar Castiglione, The Courtier (1528) Federico Gonzaga, son of the marquess of Mantua Portrait of Castiglione by Titian

15. Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), court painter to the dukes of Mantua Mantegna’s Triumphs of Caesar: Julius Caesar on Triumphal Chariot, 1485-94 Engraving from Mantegna’s Triumphs of Caesar: Elephants.

16. Leonardo da’ Vinci (d. 1519) at the French court

17. Château of Chambord (built 1519-1547)

18. Plan of Chambord, based on Giuliano da Sangallo’s Villa Medici, c. 1480 Architect of Chambord: Domenico da Cortona, pupil of Sangallo

19. Chambord’s double staircase based on a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci?

20. Chambord and Villandry: an influence?

21. Château of Fontainebleau (renovated by Giovanni Battista Le Rosso and Francesco Primaticcio)

22. Porte Dorée at Fontainebleau: compare to Luciano Laurana, Palazzo Ducale of Urbino, 1465

23. Galérie de François I at Fontainebleau

24. Rosso, “The Unity of the State,” in the Galérie de François I at Fontainebleau, 1535-40

25. Rosso, “Elephant with Fleur-de-lys” in the Galérie de François I at Fontainebleau, 1535-40 Francis I’s salamander “F” for Francis I

26. The Problem of Italy?