Le Vif du sens

By Thomas Hunkeler. (Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 66). Geneva, Droz, 2003. 321 pp. The introduction to this adventurous book includes a fairly lengthy discussion of the way in which literary texts and non-literary texts should be read together; Thomas Hunkeler expresses his intention to bring Scève's poems into dialogue with non-literary texts not in order to trace the influences of the latter upon the former, but rather to compare them, and thereby to locate the originality of Scève's representation of the body and its role in the construction of the text, the ‘corps poétique’. Thus Hunkeler discusses many works which would not normally feature in a book about Scève, including Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica, Jean Fernel's Physiologia and De abditis rerum causis, and various works attributed to Al-Kindi. In addition, Hunkeler discusses a large number of treatises on love and other works inspired by Neoplatonism, as well as the poetry of Dante, Petrarch, various poets of the dolce stil nuovo, Marot, and Ronsard

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