«Un indéfinissable regret». Lionello Sozzi et les ailes de l’âme

Abstract

This contribution is a tribute in memory of Lionello Sozzi. The A. highlights the European dimension and dramatic-moral tension implied in his critical works, particularly in his writings on Humanism, then goes beyond the dignitas concept to illustrate some moments of Jacques Grévin’s activity – writer, doctor and Protestant. Thus, the core of this essay is a deeper insight into Grévin’s works (from the Gélodacrye to the treaties and scientific translations, such as the works about Ochino, Wier, Nicandro, to the lesser-known texts dedicated to the great ladies, Chants, Pastorales and Tombeaux). The study of the sources, based on meticulous archival researches, leads Rosanna Gorris Camos to, first of all, analyse a matter dear to Lionello Sozzi and which can also be connected to the consciousness of Grévin’s contemporaries (Marot, Dolet, du Bellay): i.e., the exile matter, where the dignitas is transposed into miseria hominis. As the A. shows, the case of Grévin, with his exile in Elizabeth I’s England and in Margaret of France’s Savoy, crystallizes fears and anxieties concerning humankind at the time: the risk is to no longer distinguish «entre le vrai et le faux, mais aussi entre la vraie sagesse et la fausse sagesse, car la sagesse humaine n’est que vanité».