Re-reading the folie: Louise Labé's Sonnet XVIII and the Renaissance Love Heritage

Abstract

Louise Labé’s Sonnet XVIII is far from subtle in its forceful representation of sexual intimacy. After François Rigolot and Ann Rosalind Jones, Deborah Lesko Baker suggests a new reading of this most famous poem, and attempts to demonstrate how Louise Labé employs and ironizes the Petrarchan poetic tradition. Sonnet XVIII becomes thus a concerted dialogue with Petrarch’s Canzoniere.

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