This edition of the "Epistola Magistri Benedicti Passavantii" (1553), written by the reformer Theodore Beza, contains, apart from a translation in French, the first detailed commentary from a historical, theological and literary perspective. Finally, the "Complainte de Messire Lizet sur le trespas de son feu nez" is added for the first time with a commentary.

Jeltine L.R. Ledegang-Keegstra, Ph.D. (2001) in History, University of Leiden, studied French language and literature, Italian and Medieval English at the Free University of Amsterdam and the University of Strasbourg. She is an authority on Beza and an expert in the field of satire and macaronic Latin.