Abstract: The conjugal poems of mourning that Berardino Rota and Pierre de Brach devoted to their wives, who died prematurely, reveal in their collections a similarity in both style and structure, inspired by Petrarch, but refashioned in original form. A direct influence could be conjectured, by exploring the links between the Napoleonic literary production and that of the South-West of France (1530-1580). Nor can one ignore the notions of heterodoxy of that period.
