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Tudor Translation in Theory and Practice (review)

The French text retains the orthography used in the original printed editions, with some very minor changes for the sake of consistency. It is clearly laid out, and is largely free of errors of transcription (with the exception of one or two typos in the Deffence text). In the case of the Regrets and Antiquitez, the page layout too is closely based on the first printed edition of 1558, a choice which necessitates the alternation of French and English text on successive recto and verso pages. This unconventional choice proves a good one, since, as George Hugo Tucker has shown, the page layout of that edition is integral to the structure of the work. There is a select bibliography with a short description or evaluation of each work, a thorough index nominum, and an index of first lines. As an introduction to Du Bellay’s works for anglophone readers, this edition is unlikely to be surpassed; the finely-wrought translation is to be commended above all for the success of Helgerson’s balancing act with the contradictions built into Du Bellay’s style.