Further Reading

Editions and translations

Du Bellay, Joachim.  La Deffence, et illustration de la langue françoyse (1549) & L’Olive.  Ed. Jean-Charles Monferran (La Deffence) and Ernesta Caldarini (L’Olive). Textes Littéraires Français 943. Geneva: Droz, 2007.

---. Oeuvres complètes. Sous la direction d’Olivier Millet, par Richard Cooper… [et al]. 2 volumes. Paris: Champion, 2003.

---. La deffense, et illustration de la langue françoyse (1549). Facsimile and critical edition by Jean-Charles Monferran. Geneva: Droz, 2001.

---. Oeuvres poétiques. Critical edition by Daniel Aris & Françoise Joukovsky. Volumes 1 & 2. Paris: Bordas, 1993.

---. Oeuvres poétiques. Critical edition by Henri Chamard. Updated edition with appendix, bibliography, glossary and index by Yvonne Bellenger. Paris: Nizet, 1982.

---. The regrets: A bilingual edition. Translations from the French and Latin by David R. Slavitt. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2004.

Shapiro, Norman R. (translator and preface) and Hope Glidden (introd). Lyrics of the French Renaissance: Marot, Du Bellay, Ronsard. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2002. (Text in French with parallel English translation)

 Selected Works of Criticism and Interpretation

Du Bellay: Actes du Colloque International d'Angers du 26 au 29 mai 1989. Cesbron, Georges (ed.). Angers: P de l'Univ. d'Angers, 1990. 730 pp. (a large collection of articles by scholars who presented their work at the Angers conference)

 Bellenger, Yvonne, ed. (with Jean Balsano et al). Du Bellay et ses sonnets romains: études sur les Regrets et les Antiquitez de  Rome. Paris: H. Champion, 1994.

 Bizer, Marc. Les lettres romaines de Du Bellay : les Regrets et la tradition épistolaire. Presses de l’université de Montréal, 2001.

 Coleman, Dorothy Gabe. The chaste muse: a Study of Joachim Du Bellay’s Poetry. Leiden: Brill, 1980.

 DellaNeva, JoAnn. “Illustrating the Deffence: Imitation and Poetic Perfection in Du Bellay’s Olive.” The French Review, Vol. 61, No. 1 (Oct., 1987), 39-49.

 Gadoffre, Gilbert. Du Bellay et le sacré. Paris: Gallimard, 1995.

 Gray, Floyd. La poétique de Du Bellay. Paris: Nizet, 1978.

 Tucker, George Hugo. Les regrets et autres oeuvres poétiques de Joachim du Bellay. Paris: Gallimard, 2000.

Internet Resources

Bibliographie d’agrégation.  Bibliography of editions and secondary works for Du Bellay, prepared by Professor Michel Magnien for the 2007-2008 “Programme d’agrégation.”  The extensive bibliography can be downloaded from the Persée website.

aLaLettre-Joachim Du Bellay  - Introduction and biography in French

Poésie française-Joachim Du Bellay - Text of numerous poems by Du Bellay (in French), with recordings of several sonnets.

Musée Joachim du Bellay - (Liré, France), with background information (in French and English) on the poet and his life.

ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle-Joachim Du Bellay - Searchable, full-text transcription of the Antiquitez de Rome (1558)

Gallica - The Gallica site includes numerous editions of Du Bellay’s works, most in image format and two in text format (searchable transcriptions). The text files are from the Oeuvres poétiques, vols. 1 & 2, Edited by Daniel Aris and Françoise Joukovsky (Paris: Bordas, “Classiques Garnier,” 1993).