Session Details

Sunday, 28 December

184. Celebrating Du Bellay’s Rome (1558–2008)

8:30–9:45 a.m., Sierra Suite B, Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Sixteenth-Century French Literature

Presiding: Deborah Lesko Baker, Georgetown Univ.

1. “Du Bellay’s Roman Sonnets at 450: Celebrating Modern Poetics,” Hassan Melehy, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

2. “Revisiting Rome: Du Bellay’s Regrets and Piccolomini’s Cento sonetti,” JoAnn DellaNeva, Univ. of Notre Dame

3. “Fused to Frenchness: The Formation of National Identity in Les regrets,” Marcus Keller, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

4. “From Lyric to Epic: Joachim Du Bellay’s Epic Regrets,” Marc Bizer, Univ. of Texas, Austin

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