Poet's Odyssey: Joachim Du Bellay and the Antiquitez RomeThis fascinating study traces the artistic development of one of the major poets of the French Renaissance, Joachim Du Bellay (1522 1560). Tucker focuses on how the poet differed from his contemporaries, describes in detail the importance of his move to Rome in 1553, and provides a close analysis of Du Bellay's complex sonnet sequence, Antiquitez de Rome. In assessing the sonnets, Tucker first locates their central importance within the poet's