Dido’s Defense: Joachim Du Bellay’s Bid for Female Patronage

By Beth Landers

This article argues that French poet Joachim Du Bellay’s interest in the Dido figure and his unusual ventriloquizing of female characters are connected to his practice of cultivating female patrons. Du Bellay’s occasional poems, long ignored by…

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