Supplement to the Glossary of the Romance of the Rose

(m) Marot’s Lament to General Preudhomme.

Our Ennius Quintus Ennius (c. 239–169 BC) was a writer often called the "father of Roman poetry." By calling de Lorris "Our Ennius," Marot identifies him as the foundational figure of French literature., Guillaume de Lorris,
Who from the Romance acquired such great renown $(m)$.

(n) Judgments of the Learned original: "Jugement des Sçavans", Vol. 4, Part 3.

Baillet Adrien Baillet (1649–1706), a French scholar and critic known for his extensive bibliographical works. regarded him as the best poet of the thirteenth century $(n)$. He informs us that de Lorris lived during the reign of Saint Louis King Louis IX of France, who reigned from 1226 to 1270 and was later canonized., and that he died around the year 1260; and that by disguising the name of the woman he loved passionately as "the Rose," he undertook his Romance, in which he sought to imitate Ovid The Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso, whose works on love, like the Ars Amatoria, were deeply influential and often controversial in the Middle Ages. and expand upon his pernicious maxims, under the pretext of mixing in a bit of moral philosophy.

(o) Researches on France original: "Recherches de la France", Book 7, Chapter 3.

Pasquier Étienne Pasquier (1529–1615), a prominent French lawyer and historian who championed French vernacular literature. $(o)$, who had examined this work with more attention than Baillet, also did him more justice. He argued that the public should be grateful to Guillaume for his undertaking, which has no other object than the explanation of a dream where the main subject is love; in this, he cannot be praised too much, since, if properly understood, the effects of love are nothing but dreams.

$(m)$ Marot’s Lament to General Preudhomme.
$(n)$ Judgments of the Learned, Vol. 4, Part 3.
$(o)$ Researches on France, Book 7, Chapter 3.

Guillaume de Lorris: The first author of the Romance of the Rose, who wrote the first 4,058 lines before his death.
Roman de la Rose: The most famous medieval French allegorical poem.
Baillet: A critic who viewed the poem's Ovidian influences as morally dangerous.
Saint Loüis: King Louis IX, providing the historical timeframe for the poem’s creation.
Ovide: Ovid, the classical source for the poem's "art of love" framework.
Philoſophie morale: Moral philosophy, which Baillet suspected was a mere cover for scandalous content.
Paquier: Étienne Pasquier, a critic who defended the poem as a profound allegory on the fleeting nature of love.
Clement Marot: A 16th-century poet who modernized the Romance of the Rose for the readers of his time.