Un “centonet” de Lucain, éloge de l’opportunisme ou de la vertu? Agrippa d’Aubigné, Confession catholicque du sieur de Sancy II, IX

• Autores: Jean Louis Charlet
• Localización: Humanistica lovaniensia: journal of neo-latin studies, ISSN 0774-2908, Vol. 72, N. 1, 2023, págs. 237-244
• Idioma: francés
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  • Breaking the rules of the antique cento, Agrippa d’Aubigné has written two Latin centones from Lucan’s verses to express an actual political and religious message. We propose a literary and political study of the first, a little cento (24 verses) presented as extemporaneous and inserted in the fictitious confession of Nicolas de Harlay, gentleman converted to Catholicism in 1597: a paradoxical praise of unscrupulous political opportunism (of the roman Catholics!).