Further Reading

Recent editions and references

Labé, Louise. Oeuvres complète: sonnets, élégies, débat de folie et d'amour, poésies. Ed. François Rigolot. Paris: Flammarion, 1986.

Bourbon, Anne-Marie. Debate of Folly and Love: A New English Translation with the Original French Text. (History & Language. 8.) New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2000.

Baker, Deborah Lesko. The subject of desire : Petrarchan poetics and the female voice in Louise Labé. Foreword by Tom Conley. West Lafayette, Ind.:Purdue University Press, 1996.

Rigolot, François. Louise Labé Lionnaise, ou, la Renaissance au féminin. Paris: Champion, 1997.

Internet Resources

Les Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes: Transcription of the 1555 Euvres de Louise Labé

Académie de Lyon: Sonnets de Louise Labé. The site provides black and white images of the sonnets, a transcription of the originals, and the translation into modern French. There are also bibliographies for studies of Louise Labé and related topics, a timeline of her life, and a transcription of her 1565 testament.