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“... I, whose political views he can have engendered only by opposition. He was a friend to Ronsard and Joachim duBellay and many of the Pléiade company; to Nicholas de Grouchy, the editor of Aristotle, Elie Vinet the mathematician and cosmographer, Peter Ramus, Henri Estienne, his collaborator and printer in a variety of ...”

“... may be appropriate to such grim matters. Is his style quite so suitable for the measured verses of Du Bellay?:                                                        En quelle saisonRevoiray-je le clos de ma pauvre maison,Qui m’est une province, – beaucoup d’avantage?Plus me plaist le sejour ...”

“... judgment by aspersing a writer’s virility. Taking issue with Pater’s characterisation of Joachim duBellay, he alludes to the author of The Renaissance as ‘the don who fell on his knees to present Oscar Wilde with a lily’. The ritual castrations of this father performed earlier in the 20th century, which ...”