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with love and its links with cycles and sequences. But the extravagant idealization of woman expressed in L’Olive (1549) was also accompanied by the sarcastic, misogynistic Antiérotique de la vieille et de la jeune amie and subsequently by several blasts aimed at the Petrarchists. THE RENAISSANCE 59 In his translation of Book IV of the Aeneid he inveighed against the neo-Latin poets, but then proceeded to write four volumes of Latin Poemata. Similar contradictions are found in the Regrets