libgdx: SpriteBatch not displayed with PerspectiveCamera

While I do have the basic knowledge of OpenGL I'm just starting with libgdx.

My question is: why, having the exact same code but only switching from OrthographicCamera to PerspectiveCamera has the effect of no longer displaying any of my SpriteBatches ?

Here's the code I use:

the create() method:

public void create() {
    textureMesh = new Texture(Gdx.files.internal("data/texMeshTest.png"));
    textureSpriteBatch = new Texture(Gdx.files.internal("data/texSpriteBatchTest.png"));

    squareMesh = new Mesh(true, 4, 4, 
            new VertexAttribute(Usage.Position, 3, "a_position")
            ,new VertexAttribute(Usage.TextureCoordinates, 2, "a_texCoords")

    );

    squareMesh.setVertices(new float[] {
            squareXInitial, squareYInitial, squareZInitial,             0,1,    //lower left
            squareXInitial+squareSize, squareYInitial, squareZInitial,  1,1,    //lower right
            squareXInitial, squareYInitial+squareSize, squareZInitial,  0,0,    //upper left
            squareXInitial+squareSize, squareYInitial+squareSize, squareZInitial,1,0});  //upper right 

    squareMesh.setIndices(new short[] { 0, 1, 2, 3});

    spriteBatch = new SpriteBatch();        
}

and the render() method:

public void render() {
    GLCommon gl = Gdx.gl;

    camera.update();
    camera.apply(Gdx.gl10);
    spriteBatch.setProjectionMatrix(camera.combined);

    gl.glClear(GL10.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL10.GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
    gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_DEPTH_TEST);

    gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D);
    textureMesh.bind();
    squareMesh.render(GL10.GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4);

    spriteBatch.begin();
    spriteBatch.draw(textureSpriteBatch, -10, 0);
    spriteBatch.end();        
}

Now, if in my resize(int width, int height) method I setup the camera like so:

   public void resize(int width, int height) {
        float aspectRatio = (float) width / (floa