Poet's Odyssey: Joachim Du Bellay and the Antiquitez Rome

ISBN-13: 9780198158653 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 320 str.

George Hugo Tucker

Opis

This fascinating study traces the artistic development of one of the major poets of the French Renaissance, Joachim Du Bellay (1522-1560). Tucker focuses on how the poet differed from his contemporaries, describes in detail the importance of his move to Rome in 1553, and provides a close analysis of Du Bellay's complex sonnet sequence, Antiquitez de Rome. In assessing the sonnets, Tucker first locates their central importance within the poet's production, then further situates them with the living and scholarly context of Du Bellay's Rome. Throughout, the volume highlights the sonnets' rich intertextual framework in classical, neo-Latin, and vernacular literature, making them more accessible to the modern reader.

Recenzje

'studied in great and illuminating detail ... excitement involved in reading such an interesting text on so talented a poet ... To be able to understand and to explain why Bellay wrote as he did in his time and what that meant to his time and may mean to ours - well, that is a greater accomplishment. I wish to greet this book with delighted applause and say: Read it, if you have any interest in the relationship of poetry to philosophy and history, of the Renaissance to the past, of the Pléiade to the rest of French literature, of Renaissance concerns about the nature and value of art.' Leonard R.N. Ashley, Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, Tome LIV, No. 1, 1992

Spis treści

Notes on bibliography; List of abbreviations; Introduction; A poetic odyssey: Parisian beginnings, departure, and homecoming; The quest for Rome, in Rome; Roman texts and contexts: Vitalis portrait gallery rediscovered; The end of all; Conclusion; Appendices; A. Du Bellay's age; B. Diogo Pires, Roberto Nobili, and Du Bellay; C. Recueils factices of Du Bellay, and their annotators Henri Estienne and Panjas; D. Buonamici, Castiglione, and Fabricius Roma; E. The poems of Calcagnini and other contents of a travelling-chest belonging to the Du Bellays; F. Summary of interrelated texts centring around Antiquitez, VIII; G. Reminiscences of Vitalis Roma Prisca (1553)/ De Roma antiqua (1554) in Du Bellay's Poemata (1558), 1. 2, Romae Descripteo (fos. 3v-6r); H. Lucan, his Commentator, and the Antiquitez de Rome; Du Soleil I'une & I'autre maison; J. Further annotations by Henri Estienne of the Antiquitez (2nd edn., 1558) in the recueil factice lyon, Bibl, Mun. Res. 321. 835]; K. Translations of the main medieval and renaissance Latin poetic texts quoted; Bibliography; Index