L’Olive

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L’Olive is a mid-16th-century sonnet sequence by French poet Joachim du Bellay that helped introduce and adapt Italian Renaissance Petrarchan forms into French literature.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French poetry collection ⓘ
sonnet sequence ⓘ
associatedWithAuthorRole Joachim du Bellay as member of La Pléiade ⓘ
associatedWithGroup La Pléiade ⓘ
author Joachim du Bellay ⓘ
belongsToTradition European sonnet sequence tradition ⓘ
Renaissance love lyric ⓘ
centuryOfComposition 16th century ⓘ
countryOfOrigin France ⓘ
dateOfFirstPublication 1549 ⓘ
dedicatedTo a fictionalized beloved figure ⓘ
firstEditionContains sequence of love sonnets ⓘ
firstPublicationPlace Paris ⓘ
formStructure ordered sequence rather than isolated sonnets ⓘ
genre love poetry ⓘ
hasApproximateNumberOfSonnets around 50 sonnets in early versions ⓘ
historicalContext French reception of Italian Renaissance culture ⓘ
rise of humanism in France ⓘ
influenced development of French Petrarchan tradition ⓘ
later French sonneteers ⓘ
influencedBy Italian Renaissance poetry ⓘ
Petrarch ⓘ
linked to: Francesco Petrarca

Petrarchan sonnet tradition ⓘ
literaryForm sonnet ⓘ
literaryInnovation adaptation of Italian Petrarchan forms into French ⓘ
introduction of Petrarchan sonnet sequence to French literature ⓘ
literarySignificance early major example of French Petrarchism ⓘ
helped establish the sonnet as a key French poetic form ⓘ
important work in the codification of French poetic language ⓘ
metricalForm French alexandrine and decasyllabic lines ⓘ
movement French Renaissance ⓘ
originalLanguage French ⓘ
period mid-16th century ⓘ
publisher Paris printers ⓘ
relatedWorkByAuthor Défense et illustration de la langue française ⓘ
Les Regrets ⓘ
rhymeSchemeType Petrarchan-inspired sonnet rhyme schemes ⓘ
setting literary, idealized space rather than specific geography ⓘ
style highly rhetorical and ornate ⓘ
imitative of and competitive with Italian models ⓘ
subjectOf critical debates on imitation and originality in Renaissance poetry ⓘ
scholarly studies on French Renaissance lyric ⓘ
theme Renaissance Neoplatonic love ⓘ
idealized love ⓘ
praise of the beloved ⓘ
timeOfAuthor lifetime of Joachim du Bellay (c. 1522–1560) ⓘ

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Joachim du Bellay → notableWork → L’Olive ⓘ
Joachim du Bellay → authorOf → L’Olive ⓘ