The poet's odyssey : Joachim du Bellay and the Antiquitez de Rome / George Hugo Tucker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tucker, George Hugo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Du Bellay, Joachim, approximately 1522-1560. Antiquitez de Rome.

Du Bellay, Joachim.

Du Bellay, Joachim, approximately 1522-1560--Knowledge and learning--Italy--Rome.

Du Bellay, Joachim, approximately 1522-1560.

Sonnets, French.

Classicism.

History.

Italy--Rome.

Classicism--France--History--16th century.

Sonnets, French--History and criticism.

Sonnets, French--Roman influences.

Rome (Italy)--In literature.

Rome (Italy).

Antiquities in literature.

Rome--In literature.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

France.

Physical Description:

xiv, 304 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. A Poetic Odyssey: Parisian Beginnings, Departure, and Homecoming 7

2. The Quest for Rome, in Rome 55

3. Roman Texts and Contexts: Vitalis' Portrait Gallery Rediscovered 105

4. The End of All 175

A. Du Bellay's Age 233

B. Diogo Pires, Roberto Nobili, and Du Bellay 235

C. Recueils factices of Du Bellay, and their Annotators Henri Estienne and Panjas 237

D. Buonamici, Castiglione, and Fabricius' Roma 238

E. The poems of Calcagnini and Other Contents of a Travelling-Chest Belonging to the Du Bellays 239

F. Summary of Interrelated Texts Centring around Antiquitez, VIII 241

G. Reminiscences of Vitalis' 'Roma Prisca' (1553)/'De Roma antiqua' (1554) in Du Bellay's Poemata (1558), 1. 2, 'Romae Descriptio' (fos. 3v-6r) 244

H. Lucan, his Commentator, and the Antiquitez de Rome 245

I. 'Du Soleil l'une & l'autre maison' 247

J. Further Annotations by Henri Estienne of the Antiquitez (2nd edn., 1558) in his recueil factice [= Lyon, Bibl. Mun. Res. 321. 835] 249

K. Translations of the Main Medieval and Renaissance Latin Poetic Texts Quoted 251.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Cambridge.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-285) and index.

ISBN:

0198158653 :

OCLC:

21163644