GRINGORE, PIERRE. – Poet, born perhaps in Normandy between 1470 and 1480, died in 1539 (?). He wrote for the theater and composed poems and satires; on the religious level, he accepted the dogmas of the Church, but did not reexperience the mystical-ascetic sentiment (his verses to the Virgin are neglected). If he mocks the clerical world, he does not do so out of opposition to the faith, but because he considers himself a convinced Gallican in defending the rights of the king against the pope (his sharpest attacks are directed against Julius II).
BIBL.: Ch. Oulmont, La poésie morale, politique et dramatique à la veille de la Renaissance. P. G., Paris 1911. On the religious problems of the period: J. Vienot, Histoire de la réforme française des origines à l'édit de Nantes, there 1926. For particular aspects: W. Dittmann, P. G. als Dramatiker, Berlin 1923; Ch. R. Baskervill, P. G.'s pageants for the entry of Mary Tudor into Paris, Chicago 1934. Massimo Petrocchi