... the chapters devoted to medieval poetry, to Petrarch s work, and to Italian and French Renaissance poetry This is because, in spite of the fact that vernacular translations of the biblical books were circulating in Europe from the twelfth century, significantly increasing in both number and popularity...

...This book studies how topography, the art of describing local space and place, developed literary and visual form in early modern France. Arguing for a “new poetics of space” ranging throughout French Renaissance poetry, prose, and cartography, this book performs dazzling readings of maps, woodcuts...

... genre political readings uses Baïf Jean Antoine de blazon descending description Song of Songs French Renaissance poetry Petrarchism biblical verse versions Clément Marot Rémy Belleau Marin Le Saulx Marguerite de Navarre Anne de Marquets In France, the sixteenth century was the century...

... rewriting French Renaissance poetry The focus of my chapter will be Du Bellay’s translations of the Aeneid. In the context of French translations of Virgil in the Renaissance, what are the choices made by Du Bellay for his translations of the Aeneid? Alice Hulubei’s old...