Buy new:
-8% $82.58
FREE delivery May 16 - 21
Ships from: MyPrepbooks
Sold by: MyPrepbooks
$82.58 with 8 percent savings
List Price: $89.95

The List Price is the suggested retail price of a new product as provided by a manufacturer, supplier, or seller. Except for books, Amazon will display a List Price if the product was purchased by customers on Amazon or offered by other retailers at or above the List Price in at least the past 90 days. List prices may not necessarily reflect the product's prevailing market price.
Learn more
FREE delivery May 16 - 21. Details
In Stock
$$82.58 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$82.58
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.
Ships from
MyPrepbooks
Ships from
MyPrepbooks
Sold by
MyPrepbooks
Sold by
MyPrepbooks
Returns
Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt
Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt. You may receive a partial or no refund on used, damaged or materially different returns.
Read full return policy
Returns
Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt. You may receive a partial or no refund on used, damaged or materially different returns.
Read full return policy
Payment
Secure transaction
Your transaction is secure
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
Payment
Secure transaction
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
$54.95
NO DUST JACKET; solid covers/binding and crisp/clean reading pages. Best Quality & Lowest Price! Follow me at CABMichigan - Have a great day! FREE USPS Priority Mail® Expedited Shipping (USA) for Items $40-$250 - PRIME Shipping Above $250 NO DUST JACKET; solid covers/binding and crisp/clean reading pages. Best Quality & Lowest Price! Follow me at CABMichigan - Have a great day! FREE USPS Priority Mail® Expedited Shipping (USA) for Items $40-$250 - PRIME Shipping Above $250 See less
FREE delivery May 10 - 14. Details
Or fastest delivery Friday, May 10. Order within 19 hrs 39 mins. Details
Only 1 left in stock - order soon.
$$82.58 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$82.58
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.
Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.
Ships from and sold by CABMichigan.
Amazon book clubs early access
Loading your book clubs
There was a problem loading your book clubs. Please try again.
Not in a club? Learn more
Amazon book clubs early access

Join or create book clubs

Choose books together

Track your books
Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free.
Explore Amazon Book Clubs
Kindle app logo image

Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.

Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.

QR code to download the Kindle App

Follow the author

Joachim Du Bellay
+ Follow
More books from this author
Something went wrong. Please try your request again later.

Joachim du Bellay: "The Regrets," with "The Antiquities of Rome," Three Latin Elegies, and "The Defense and Enrichment of the French Language." A Bilingual Edition Hardcover – October 10, 2006

by Richard Helgerson (Editor, Translator)
5.0 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 rating
See all formats and editions
{"desktop_buybox_group_1":[{"displayPrice":"$82.58","priceAmount":82.58,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"82","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"58","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"BIs494RIubsyUrW2q05Oh54eKDhtnDWYlre9EeV43%2FqbqhreHzkd2xy%2FE2HYDyThjLZZ2qnYBpmAp%2FQ82gGsrhAKtp7tZVNZqSyNoqhYATd%2Fbb2daL68qZGsSF853ilfZ4AdgQhZ2tl32ZstBFrQDnIrtSZFd8h0gstWzOhhQM%2BJNjNLJ9IR7S%2BoOtM8S7cE","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":0}, {"displayPrice":"$54.95","priceAmount":54.95,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"54","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"95","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"BIs494RIubsyUrW2q05Oh54eKDhtnDWYBKfNcJZ9zuipL6q98A3ymWvTMUfkBvfhsQNICrAdkwDNmyuAtb6L5npUy5l9fU1785bA9da%2FailYdIIe9mTTOrH30nXx6VCxJWBQYRjrTw9SmtMIUlFTDyQdhAsJTykwPCD6NcOoW%2BT8FAR52GM4kA%3D%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"USED","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":1}]}

Purchase options and add-ons

Additional Details

Black-Owned Business
The current featured offer for this product is sold by a Black-owned business. Look for this badge in Search results and the Additional Details section on product detail pages. Discover more about the Black-owned businesses selling in Amazon’s store and Amazon’s commitment to empowering them.
Learn more
Black-Owned Business
The current featured offer for this product is sold by a Black-owned business. Learn more

To the Reader:
This little book, reader, that we give you now has at once the taste of gall and honey mixed with salt. If it pleases your palate, come as a guest. This feast has been prepared for you. If not, please go away. I did not mean to invite you to the feast.

Joachim du Bellay (1522-60) was one of the most important poets of the Renaissance and remains a cornerstone of the French literary tradition. In this monumental bilingual edition Richard Helgerson collects The Regrets and The Antiquities of Rome, two sonnet sequences du Bellay wrote during the more than four years he spent in Rome and that he published immediately on his return to France in 1558, along with three Latin elegies he also wrote in Rome and The Defense and Enrichment of the French Language, his earlier manifesto for the new poetry he and his friend Pierre de Ronsard were then about to launch. The Regrets is a vibrant, often moving, and by turns nostalgic and satiric account of du Bellay's stay at the papal court. The Antiquities is also concerned with Rome, but in a very different way: not as a quotidian record of the poet's experience of the modern city but as a profound meditation on the ruin of an ancient empire.

In imitation of Petrarch, sonnet sequences were a prime marker of the new poetry all over Europe. But there are no other sequences like du Bellay's, none that leave love aside and express such a varied range of emotions and ideas. And du Bellay's Defense is in its own way no less remarkable and no less preoccupied with the classical heritage and its Rome: a bold call for a new French poetry that would rival and even surpass that of antiquity.

Read more Read less
Previous page
  1. Print length
    464 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    University of Pennsylvania Press
  4. Publication date
    October 10, 2006
  5. Dimensions
    6.25 x 1.25 x 9.28 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0812239415
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0812239416
  8. See all details
Next page
The Amazon Book Review
The Amazon Book Review
Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This is a terrific enterprise brilliantly carried out. Richard Helgerson's ear for du Bellay's sound is as fine-tuned as his subtle understanding of lexical shading, and his sense of English rhythm makes this translation as good as Robert Durling's Petrarch, likewise in prose and likewise moving in its limpid fidelity to the original." ― Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College

"A splendid achievement, faithful, elegant, and, above all, user-friendly, this book will be welcomed with cheers by all Anglophone students of European poetry. It has no rival." ― Timothy Hampton, University of California, Berkeley

"This edition makes du Bellay genuinely available, in every sense. . . . It is a great gift to readers." ― Spenser Review

Book Description

"A splendid achievement, faithful, elegant, and, above all, user-friendly, this book will be welcomed with cheers by all Anglophone students of European poetry. It has no rival."—Timothy Hampton, University of California, Berkeley

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Pennsylvania Press; Bilingual edition (October 10, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0812239415
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0812239416
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.25 x 9.28 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    5.0 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 rating

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.
Joachim Du Bellay

Joachim Du Bellay

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Discover more of the author’s books, see similar authors, read author blogs and more

Customer reviews

5 out of 5 stars
5 out of 5
1 global rating

Top review from the United States

ChristineEllenNYC
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful translation of an important work.
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2010
Verified Purchase
First, this has the benefit of being a facing page translation, French-English. Second, Helgerson has done a magnificent job. This is an important contribution by an eminent scholar to the study of an influential poet who is difficult to find in solid English translation. I wish Helgerson had been able to get to L'Olive -- but am so grateful for all his work on the Antiquities of Rome and Regrets. The Regrets, by the way, are beautiful. Read them just for the poetry and poetics.
6 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report