Philippe Desportes: Poète profane, poète sacré

[...]Olivier Hale'vy offers an accurate study in light of the culture of love letters written in neo-Petrarchist diction. [...]Audrey Duru's essay studies the wide reception of Desportes's religious poems, arguing that their circulation and imitation by other poets was greater than previously thought. The variety of topics and methodologies, the connections from one essay to the other, and especially the necessary and relevant four main themes of the volume, make it not only an important contribution to the study of sixteenth-century French literature and culture, but certainly a welcomed and indispensable addition to the understanding of Philippe Desportes and his work.