La Folie Dans Nadja

most of whom were indebted to Italian sources. The Rimes (1545) of Pernette du Guillet (c.1518–45) are lyrical expressions of unfulfilled love expressed in mystical, Neoplatonic terms. Louise Labé (c.1520–66) left a prose allegory, the Débat de la folie et de l’amour (1555), but is mainly remembered for two dozen intense, passionate sonnets which evoke emotion and sensuality in unambiguous terms. These themes are echoed in her three elegies on the theme of unhappy love and her desertion by, it is