Estelle DOUDET, full professor at the University of Lausanne, specializes in French literature from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. Her research focuses on the era of poet-orators. Author of 30 works and 250 articles, she leads international projects funded by the SNSF, such as Medialiterature and Capturing the Present.Lucien DUGAZ is a member of the SNSF project Medialiterature (Lausanne). He is currently studying the concept of minores in French literature around 1500, based on a corpus of little-known occasional poetry. He also edited several texts by Christine de Pizan (Écrire d’amour, parler de soi, 2023; Le Livre des fais d’armes et de chevalerie, 2021).

• Contents Estelle Doudet & Lucien Dugaz When Poetry Was Rhetoric PART I Successes and Failures in Communication Ellen Delvallée Guillaume Cretin and the Practice of Invective Discourse Estelle Doudet Chastelain’s Scenarios to Amending Miscommunication in Poetry PART II Allegory as a Poetic and Rhetorical Device Dariusz Krawczyk Eloquence of Unveiling: Allegorical Temples and Spiritual Discourse in François Habert’s Work Nathalie Dauvois Prosopopœia, Rhetoric and Political Engagement, from Jean Bouchet to Pierre de Ronsard Part III Authorship and Authority Benedetta Salvati Authorship and Agency in Nicaise Ladam’s Poetry Lucien Dugaz ‘Rendre à Octovien…’: Attributing the Dame sans sy and the Trois Bussines to Octovien de Saint-Gelais PART IV Poetry among the Arts Adeline Desbois-Ientile How does Poetry Communicate? Molinet and Lemaire’s Opposing Views on Music Notes on Contributors References Index of names Index of poetical and rhetorical notions Index of cited manuscripts

Estelle DOUDET, full professor at the University of Lausanne, specializes in French literature from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. Her research focuses on the era of poet-orators. Author of 30 works and 250 articles, she leads international projects funded by the SNSF, such as Medialiterature and Capturing the Present.Lucien DUGAZ is a member of the SNSF project Medialiterature (Lausanne). He is currently studying the concept of minores in French literature around 1500, based on a corpus of little-known occasional poetry. He also edited several texts by Christine de Pizan (Écrire d’amour, parler de soi, 2023; Le Livre des fais d’armes et de chevalerie, 2021).

• Contents Estelle Doudet & Lucien Dugaz When Poetry Was Rhetoric PART I Successes and Failures in Communication Ellen Delvallée Guillaume Cretin and the Practice of Invective Discourse Estelle Doudet Chastelain’s Scenarios to Amending Miscommunication in Poetry PART II Allegory as a Poetic and Rhetorical Device Dariusz Krawczyk Eloquence of Unveiling: Allegorical Temples and Spiritual Discourse in François Habert’s Work Nathalie Dauvois Prosopopœia, Rhetoric and Political Engagement, from Jean Bouchet to Pierre de Ronsard Part III Authorship and Authority Benedetta Salvati Authorship and Agency in Nicaise Ladam’s Poetry Lucien Dugaz ‘Rendre à Octovien…’: Attributing the Dame sans sy and the Trois Bussines to Octovien de Saint-Gelais PART IV Poetry among the Arts Adeline Desbois-Ientile How does Poetry Communicate? Molinet and Lemaire’s Opposing Views on Music Notes on Contributors References Index of names Index of poetical and rhetorical notions Index of cited manuscripts

Estelle DOUDET, full professor at the University of Lausanne, specializes in French literature from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. Her research focuses on the era of poet-orators. Author of 30 works and 250 articles, she leads international projects funded by the SNSF, such as Medialiterature and Capturing the Present.Lucien DUGAZ is a member of the SNSF project Medialiterature (Lausanne). He is currently studying the concept of minores in French literature around 1500, based on a corpus of little-known occasional poetry. He also edited several texts by Christine de Pizan (Écrire d’amour, parler de soi, 2023; Le Livre des fais d’armes et de chevalerie, 2021).

• Contents Estelle Doudet & Lucien Dugaz When Poetry Was Rhetoric PART I Successes and Failures in Communication Ellen Delvallée Guillaume Cretin and the Practice of Invective Discourse Estelle Doudet Chastelain’s Scenarios to Amending Miscommunication in Poetry PART II Allegory as a Poetic and Rhetorical Device Dariusz Krawczyk Eloquence of Unveiling: Allegorical Temples and Spiritual Discourse in François Habert’s Work Nathalie Dauvois Prosopopœia, Rhetoric and Political Engagement, from Jean Bouchet to Pierre de Ronsard Part III Authorship and Authority Benedetta Salvati Authorship and Agency in Nicaise Ladam’s Poetry Lucien Dugaz ‘Rendre à Octovien…’: Attributing the Dame sans sy and the Trois Bussines to Octovien de Saint-Gelais PART IV Poetry among the Arts Adeline Desbois-Ientile How does Poetry Communicate? Molinet and Lemaire’s Opposing Views on Music Notes on Contributors References Index of names Index of poetical and rhetorical notions Index of cited manuscripts