In a series of stanzas beginning with "Item," this writer bequeaths various possessions to real and hypothetical people.
One poem by this author contains two stanzas that are acrostics spelling out his name and the name of "Martha," who may be a "false beauty." A blason by this author is paralleled by a reverse blason in which an old woman describes how her attractive features have deteriorated with age. A poem by this author speaks favorably of Duke Artus, King Alphonso and Pope Callixtus the Third. Another of his poems describes the alcoholism of "our good late Master Jean Cotart." A poetic sequence by this author opens by describing the humiliation that he experienced at the hands of the Bishop Thibault d'Aussigny. In a series of stanzas beginning with "Item," this writer bequeaths various possessions to real and hypothetical people. This author wrote two ubi sunt ballades about the ladies and men of times past, and the lines "where, where is worthy Charlemagne?" and "where are the snows of yesteryear?" For 10 points, name this medieval French poet who wrote Le Grande Testament.
One poem by this author contains two stanzas that are acrostics spelling out his name and the name of "Martha," who may be a "false beauty."
Francois Villon