Friday, April 13, 2012

du Bellay: Elegiae, Varia epigrammata, Amores, Tumuli


Elegiae, Varia epigrammata, Amores, Tumuli by Joachim du Bellay (1558)

Here is the lovely cover emblem from the book, which has these Greek words (from Matthew 7) wound around the tree: "every good tree makes fair fruit." Du Bellay was a famous French poet, best known for his French poetry, but as this book shows, he was an accomplished Latin poet also.



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