Poet's Odyssey: Joachim Du Bellay and the Antiquitez Rome (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198158653)

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.

Author: George Hugo Tucker
ISBN-10: 0198158653
ISBN-13: 9780198158653
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 01/17/1991
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d