Abstract: In this second volume, the reader discovers the work that earned Olivier de Magny critical acclaim: Les Souspirs, based on his experiences in Rome, and Les Odes. The paratext highlights the poetic emulation he maintained with the Pléiade’s authors as well as the particularities of his writing.
Keyword: Charles IX of France, Petrarch, Ludovico Ariosto, sonnet, classical mythology, Greco-Latin literature, Joachim du Bellay, Louise Labé, Erasmus, sixteenth-century literature