The Poet's Odyssey
Joachim Du Bellay and the Antiquitez de Rome
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 22 November 1990
- ISBN 9780198158653
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages318 pages
- Size 224x146x25 mm
- Weight 562 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
The Poet's Odyssey traces the artistic development of one of the major poets of the French Renaissance, Joachim Du Bellay (?1522-60), showing how he differed from his contemporaries (in particular his great rival Ronsard) and the importance of his move to Rome in 1553.
In this unique study of Du Bellay and his Antiquitez de Rome, Dr Tucker makes this complex sonnet sequence more accessible to the modern reader, highlighting its rich intertextual framework in Classical, neo-Latin and vernacular literature. He also redresses a critical imbalance. Du Bellay and his immediate contemporaries identified the Antiquitez, rather than the Regrets, as his major work. Tucker demonstrates its central importance within the poet's production, and further situates it within a whole tradition of reflection upon Rome and her destiny from Classical times onwards. The Antiquitez are also seen to represent the ultimate step in the development of a poetic style and sensibility in diametric opposition to Ronsard's. Finally, Dr Tucker also relates the collection to the literary and scholarly context of Du Bellay's Rome.
`Tuckers scholarship is clearly up to the task ... The Antiquitez de Rome constitutes an impressive and moving meditation on the notion of transience ... Thanks to Tucker's study, we are now better placed to understand why his contemporaries thought so highly of them.'
Times Higher Education Supplement
Table of Contents:
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
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