born perhaps 1522
Joachim du Bellay, French poet, founded a group, known as the Pléiade, and wrote sonnets, satires on literary conventions, and a manifesto of the principles.
Joachim du Bellay or Du Bellay, a critic and member, authored
Defense and Illustration of the French Language
. From 1553,
Les Regrets
, his most famous work, collects elegy and then finally encomia on the occasion of his stay in Rome to 1557.
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