Joachim DU BELLAY

Joachim DU BELLAY

Bornvers 1522
Died1 janvier 1560
LanguagesLatin, Greek, French
NationalityFrance
A poet and humanist of the French Renaissance, Joachim Du Bellay was one of the founding members of the Pléiade poets, alongside Ronsard. In 1549, he published The Defence and Illustration of the French Language, a manifesto arguing for the dignity of French against Latin. While staying in Rome from 1553 to 1557 as secretary to Cardinal Jean Du Bellay, he composed The Regrets (1558), a major collection in sixteenth-century French poetry. Three other works were born of this Roman period: Les Antiquités de Rome, Divers jeux rustiques, and Poemata. This last collection, written entirely in Latin, paradoxically made the author of The Defence and Illustration of the French Language a first-rate Neo-Latin poet. His work, marked by exile, melancholy, and reflection on language, helped lay the foundations of modern French poetry.
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Other Names
  • BELLAII Ioachimi
  • BELLAY Joachim Du
  • BELLAIUS Joachimus
Bibliography
- La Défense et illustration de la langue française, Paris, Arnoul L’Angelier, 1549. - L’Olive, Paris, Arnoul L’Angelier, 1549. - Les Regrets, Paris, F. Morel, 1558. - Les Antiquités de Rome, Paris, F. Morel, 1558. - Divers jeux rustiques, 1558. - Poemata, also referenced under the names Andini poematum libri quatuor : Elegiæ. Varia Epigr[ammata]. Amores [Faustinae]. Tumuli., and also Œuvres latines.
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DU BELLAY, Joachim
  1. "Happy he who has seen the customs and cities of many peoples, and has been able to grow old in his own home."
    [Poemata] Andini poematum libri quatuor : Elegiæ. Varia Epigr[ammata]. Amores [Faustinae]. Tumuli.
    Ioachimi BELLAII [Joachim DU BELLAY]

    [Poemata] Andini poematum libri quatuor : Elegiæ. Varia Epigr[ammata]. Amores [Faustinae]. Tumuli.[The Four Books of Poems from Anjou: Elegies. Various Epigrams. Loves [of Faustina]. Tombs.]

    Apud Federicum Morellum, in uico Bellouaco, ad vrbanam Morum|Parisiis 1558|16 x 22.7 cm|Relié

    A rare first edition, of which no subsequent reprint exists, complete with all his Neo-Latin poems, chiefly composed in Rome. The volume also contains two Greek poems at ff. 60 and 62, together with a poem which inspired the celebrated sonnet Happy he who like Ulysses.

    Modern binding in full limp vellum, smooth spine, red edges, white pastedowns and endleaves.

    Some defects within: discreet restoration to inner margin of title verso; small tear without loss at foot of ff. 2-3; dampstaining to lower margin of ff. 25-28 and 45-48; minimal marginal defect to f. 44, not affecting...

    €5,000
  2. Hymne au Roy sur la prinse de Callais
    Joachim DU BELLAY

    Hymne au Roy sur la prinse de Callais

    Fédéric Morel|s. l. 1558|16.50 x 23 cm|relié
    First edition, a second edition appeared, with the same publisher, the following year. Printer's device, with the tree, on the title page.
    Full-margined copy, entirely ruled in red. Privilege dated 17 January 1557.
    Reused binding in full cream vellum probably from the 17th century.
    In his Hymne au Roy, du Bellay praises the Duke of Guise who retook Calais from the English, on 8 January 1558, after a week's siege and the death of two hundred Englishmen. Let us recall that Calais had been in English hands since 1347.
    Other poets would describe the successes of this enterprise in odes, such as Jean Dorat (1505-1588) or Michel de l'Hospital (ca...
    €3,000
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