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
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sonnet sequence ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthorRole | Joachim du Bellay as member of La Pléiade ⓘ |
| associatedWithGroup | La Pléiade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Joachim du Bellay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToTradition |
European sonnet sequence tradition
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Renaissance love lyric ⓘ |
| centuryOfComposition | 16th century ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| dateOfFirstPublication | 1549 ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | a fictionalized beloved figure ⓘ |
| firstEditionContains | sequence of love sonnets ⓘ |
| firstPublicationPlace | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formStructure | ordered sequence rather than isolated sonnets ⓘ |
| genre | love poetry ⓘ |
| hasApproximateNumberOfSonnets | around 50 sonnets in early versions ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
French reception of Italian Renaissance culture
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rise of humanism in France ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of French Petrarchan tradition
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later French sonneteers ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Italian Renaissance poetry
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Petrarch NERFINISHED ⓘ Petrarchan sonnet tradition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryForm | sonnet ⓘ |
| literaryInnovation |
adaptation of Italian Petrarchan forms into French
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introduction of Petrarchan sonnet sequence to French literature ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
early major example of French Petrarchism
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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 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| period | mid-16th century ⓘ |
| publisher | Paris printers ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
Défense et illustration de la langue française
NERFINISHED
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Les Regrets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rhymeSchemeType | Petrarchan-inspired sonnet rhyme schemes ⓘ |
| setting | literary, idealized space rather than specific geography ⓘ |
| style |
highly rhetorical and ornate
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imitative of and competitive with Italian models ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
critical debates on imitation and originality in Renaissance poetry
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scholarly studies on French Renaissance lyric ⓘ |
| theme |
Renaissance Neoplatonic love
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idealized love ⓘ praise of the beloved ⓘ |
| timeOfAuthor | lifetime of Joachim du Bellay (c. 1522–1560) ⓘ |
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