Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou is Professor of French language of the sixteenth century at Sorbonne Université. She is the author of numerous publications on sixteenth-century poetry and Rabelais. Her publications include L'Imaginaire cosmologique de Ronsard (2002).
Paul J. Smith is Emeritus Professor of French Literature at Leiden University. He has published monographs, collective volumes and many articles on French Literature, including the co-edited volume Early Modern Catalogues of Imaginary Books. A Scholarly Anthology (2020).

The French poets Ronsard and Du Bartas enjoyed a wide but varied reception throughout early modern Europe. This volume is the first book length monograph to study the transnational reception histories of both poets in conjunction with each other.