These two volumes contain all the poetical works of Joachim Du Bellay, an extraordinarily inventive author who produced in some ten years one of the most varied ensembles of the Renaissance.
Joachim du Bellay, French poet, founded a group, known as the Pléiade, and wrote sonnets, satires on literary conventions, and a manifesto of the principles.
Joachim du Bellay or Du Bellay, a critic and member, authored Defense and Illustration of the French Language. From 1553, Les Regrets, his most famous work, collects elegy and then finally encomia on the occasion of his stay in Rome to 1557.