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Volume one of Du Bellay's complete Latin poems. Often humorous chronicles of how the poet liberated a Roman wife from the convent where her husband had confined her. Also 67 epigrams to famous contemporaries. English verse translation facing the Latin. Introduction, critical notes, bibliography, index. Buckram hardback.
"A splendid achievement, faithful, elegant, and, above all, user-friendly, this book will be welcomed with cheers by all Anglophone students of European poetry. It has no rival."—Timothy Hampton, University of California, Berkeley
Sonnet sequences of the Renaissance.
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As a member of the mid-sixteenth-century literary group La Pleiade, Joachim du Bellay sought to elevate his native French to the level of the classical languages--a goal pursued with great spirit, elegance, irony, and wit in the poems that comprise "The Regrets,"