Why did the poets of the Pléiade, champions of the French language, write verse in Latin? After examining theories of translation from Cicero to the Pléiade, this study shows that composing poems in Latin was a carefully considered way to assert themselves in the world and make their voices heard.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-8124-5679-4
EAN:9782812456794
ISSN: 2114-1096
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-37312-712-6
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 11-25-2006
Language: French
Keyword: Posterity, imitatio, variation, plagiarism, neo-Latin, Petrarchism, Pierre de Ronsard, Giovanni Pontano, Latin literature, sixteenth-century literature
