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).