Editor's preface : French Renaissance literary and scholarly legacies / Jessica Devos and Bruce Hayes -- Rabelais's innovations. The "design" of Rabelais's Gargantua : a note on structure and meaning at midpoint / François Rigolot ; Panurge and the blameless knight : from Bouchet's Panegyric to Rabelais's Pantagruel / François Cornilliat ; Cynic charity and Christian satire : blending genres and programming readings in the "Prologue of the author" to Rabelais's Tiers livre / Edward Tilson -- Rabelaisian encryptions / Mireille Huchon -- Italy and France : identity and boundaries. Praise and (more) blame of Dante in late Renaissance France / Richard Cooper ; Intimacy and public display : secretarial design in Montaigne's Journal de voyage / Richard E. Keatley -- Women and the fashioning of poetic legacies. "Idol of my life" : idolatry and poetic immortalization in Scève's Délie / Brooke D. Di Lauro ; Ronsard's Discours for two queens : the poetics of political pamphlets / Cathy Yandell ; Ronsard's poetic progeny : fashioning Madeleine de l'Aubespine's literary persona / Jessica Devos -- Politics, religion, and propaganda during the wars of religion. From affinity groups to partisan narratives : Brantôme, Pierre de L'Estoile, and the guises / Dora Polachek ; From monologue to dialogue : the uses and misuses of genre in Le pacifique / Shira Weidenbaum -- Ethical legacy of humanism. Of an illusion in Montaigne / David Quint.
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