Abstract: The second volume of the complete works of Joachim du Bellay gathers the collections and pieces from 1549–1550, as well as the two versions of L'Olive. Starting to fulfill the promises of La Deffence et illustration de la langue françoyse, the poet became a champion of the new humanist poetry.
Keyword: Translator, poetry, Christian, Neoplatonism, lyricism, Love, mythology, Greco-Latin literature, La Pléiade, Pierre de Ronsard, sixteenth-century literature
