Less Rightly Said is a detailed study of polemical literature in sixteenth-century France that explores the role of offense ("scandal") in a religious and a rhetorical sense and traces the emergence of a new political genre through both canonical polemical works and popular satires and invectives.

Ant¿nia Szabari is Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.

"This study opens the canon in unforeseen and vital ways. It takes delight in exhuming and reconsidering a rich and motley world of literature of uncommon comedy and violence. It will change our understanding of the delicate contexts in which vicious satire was born. Szabari should be congratulated for this outstanding contribution to early modern studies."