by Joachim Du Bellay · Distribooks Inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070321476
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«Les Regrets» is the poetic work of Joachim Du Bellay, published by Distribooks Inc in the Poésie/Gallimard collection, in paperback (368 pages, in French).
The volume brings together three titles by Joachim Du Bellay: Les Regrets, Les Antiquités de Rome and Défense et Illustration de la Langue française. His poems express the author's nostalgia for France, fascination with the ruins of Rome, and defense of the French language as a literary language, within Renaissance aesthetics.
This edition was published in 1975 and includes a preface by Jacques Borel and an edition established by S. de Sacy.
Suitable for students of French and readers of Renaissance French poetry.
Joachim du Bellay was a French poet, critic, and a founder of La Pléiade. He notably wrote the manifesto of the group: Défense et illustration de la langue française, which aimed at promoting French as an artistic language, equal to Greek and Latin.
