The Editor: Sarah Alyn Stacey is Senior Lecturer in the Department of French at Trinity College, Dublin. She is also Director of the university’s Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. In recognition of her research, she was appointed to a Fellowship of the College in 2004 and was also awarded associate membership of the Académie de Savoie. She is a long-standing member of the Council of the Society for Renaissance Studies and for ten years held the post of Associate Editor of the Journal of Renaissance Studies. Her books include a critical edition of Marc-Claude de Buttet’s Amalthée (2003) and Marc-Claude de Buttet (1529/31-1586) (2006). She has also published on the seventeenth-century poet Saint-Amant and contemporary French women’s writing.

• Contents: Sarah Alyn Stacey: Introduction – Robert Knecht: Francis I, ‘Father of Letters’? – Margaret M. McGowan: Festivities for the Marriage of Henri de Navarre and Marguerite de Valois (1572): Aesthetic Triumphs and Political Exploitation – Jennifer Britnell: Competition and Co-operation: The Court Poets of Louis XII and Anne of Brittany – Sarah Alyn Stacey: Between Two Courts: Nationhood and Diplomacy in the Works of Marc-Claude de Buttet 1554-1561 – Dana Bentley-Cranch: A Question of Patronage: The Links between Clément Marot, Antoine de Pons, Bernard Palissy and Anne de Montmorency in the Context of the Reform Movement in Sixteenth-Century France – Catherine Reuben: The Closers: People who Finish other People’s Psalm Translations – Michael Heath: Translation and Transmission: The Case of Erasmus’s Exomologesis – Malcolm Quainton: The Mysterious Case of the Missing Source Edition of Jean-Antoine de Baïf’s Le Brave – George Hugo Tucker: The Witty Art of the Neo-Latin Cento: The Textual ‘Patchworks’ of Lelio Capilupi of Mantua (1497-1560) – Trevor Peach : Une Catilinaire de légiste : La Satyre au Roy de Gabriel Bounin (1586) – Alan Hindley: Pierre Gringore, Satire and Carnival: Le Jeu du Prince des Sotz et de Mere Sotte – Annette Tomarken: ‘Un Voyage en ce pays là’: Bruscambille’s Journey to the Heavens (and Back) – Frank Dobbins: Rabelais and the Musicians of his Time.