Clément Marot: o principal editor antigo do corpus atribuído a François Villon

Abstract

In this paper, we intend to understand the historical criteria that guided the first editions of François Villon’s poetic corpus. Although modern editions use different editorial criteria (based on the biography of its hypothetical empirical author), they reproduce the shape of the main old edition of François Villon’s Works (1532) by Clément Marot. Published posthumously, that corpus did not receive any authorized edition, but it was largely the result of the collective work of its first editors. Using the metaphors of veil and body to refer the poetic text, Marot has founded his publishing upon a rigorous interpretation of the corpus’ moral sense. Thus, Marot’s edition is chronologically builded upon the exemplary life of the villain's repentance, according to the Christian cosmology of the fall and redemption.

Keywords

• François Villon
• Corpus medieval
• Conceito de autoria
• Clément Marot
• Edições antigas
• Gênero biográfico