This volume publishes editions of two important texts in literary history. La Deffence, et illustration de la langue francoyse is presented here in its original orthography and punctuation, and is placed in its original context amidst the poetic and linguistic debates of Early Renaissance France. L'Olive, the first French canzoniere composed of sonnets, is presented in its second edition from 1550 and is offered with variant readings of the first fifty sonnets. French text.