Twenty original perspectives on such authors as Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais, Montaigne, Marot, Labé, and Hélisenne de Crenne, as well as on less familiar works of religious polemics, emblems, cart
Thirteen somber essays reflect on the last scholarly taboo, the scatological, in Early Modern European artistic and literary expression. More than a naughty novelty, the collection, its editors note,