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Joachim du Bellay Quotes

d. 1560 France

Joachim du Bellay (c. 1522 – 1 January 1560) was a French poet, literary 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.

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When you pass from the text to the translation, you seem to travel from the burning mountain of Etna to the icy summit of Caucasus.

Défense et illustration de la langue françoise (1549)

France, mother of the Arts and Arms and Laws.

Les Regrets (1559)

Rome as Rome's only monument is seen,
And Rome by Rome alone has conquered been.

Les Antiquités de Rome (1558)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joachim du Bellay (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.