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What would it take to fake a sonnet by Louise Labé?
Timothy Chesters weighs in on the authorship controversy over France’s most famous female Renaissance poet, Louise Labé (c.1520-1564).Twenty years ago a prominent French critic, Mireille Huchon, caused uproar by alleging that Olivier de Magny, a male poet traditionally believed to have been Labé’s lover, forged her poems...