1. Edmund Spenser, “Ruines of Rome: By Bellay,” in Spenser’s Minor Poems, ed. Ernest de Sélincourt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1910).
2. See also Joachim Du Bellay, L’olive augmentee depuis la premiere edition. La Musagnoeomachie & aultres oeuvres poëtiques... (Paris: Gilles Corrozet & Arneul L’angelier, 1550).
3. A. Kent Hieatt, “The Genesis of Shakespeare’s Sonnets: penser’s Ruines of Rome: By Bellay,” PMLA 98 (1983): 800
4. George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London: Richard Field, 1589).
5. Earlier views that support this appreciation of Wyatt can be found in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, and D. G. Rees, “Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Translations from Petrarch,” Comparative Literature 7 (1955): 15