Madrigal Malleville

Though he published relatively little, his ideas were publicized by friends and disciples (Honorat de Racan, 1589–1670; Pierre Deimier, 1570–1618; and François Mainard, 1582–1646) and taken up in influential salon circles by poets like Claude de Malleville (1597–1647) and Vincent Voiture (1597–1648). Malherbe’s ideal of formal simplicity and soberer themes had gained wide currency by the 1620s and his principles would be further refined and developed by a series of commentators whose number and variety