In fact, he's our "bon Roi René" but I didn't know that he was also in poetry ...your fellow Angevin, René d'Anjou,
Oui! He looks well nourished by les bons vins d'Anjou. He wrote a book on the rules of tournaments, and a poem about courtly love, Le Livre du Cuer d'amours espris, but the crucified heart is from Le mortifiement de vaine plaisance. I know of him only from references, but I admire his friend and kinsman Charles d'Orléans, who spent some years as a prisoner (quite comfortably it seems) in the Tower of London, writing some pretty fine poems in French, English and Latin!In fact, he's our "bon Roi René" but I didn't know that he was also in poetry ...
Portrait du roi René par Nicolas Froment,
détail du Diptyque des Matheron (1474),
Paris, musée du Louvre.
René et son épouse Jeanne, détails du Triptyque du buisson ardent peint par Nicolas Froment en 1475, cathédrale Saint-Sauveur d'Aix-en-Provence.