• Introduction: Constantijn Huygens as a Man of Letters — Lise Gosseye, Frans Blom, & Ad Leerintveld
• PART 1 PUBLIC SELF-FASHIONING: SOCIAL AND ARTISTIC STRATEGIES
• Building in Stones and Words: Strategies of Self Presentation in Huygens’ Volumes of Collected Poetry — Frans R.E. Blom
• Constantijn Huygens’ Art Collection: The Importance of Portraiture — Inge Broekman
• PART 2 INNER SELF-FASHIONING AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE: READING AND RELIGION
• Consolation Row: Ooghentroost and the Comfort of Satire —Jürgen Pieters
• The Dialogue of Two Memories: On the Importance of Reading to the Formation of the Self in Constantijn Huygens’ Ooghentroost — Lise Gosseye
• ‘This is my Body’: Huygens’ Poetic Response to the Words of Institution — Christopher Joby
• PART 3 PRIVATE SELF-FASHIONING: MOMENTS IN LIFE
• ‘Dear Song’: Scholarly Whitewashing of the Correspondence Between Constantijn Huygens and Dorothea Van Dorp — Lisa Jardine
• Huygens, Descartes and Golius — Theo Verbeek
• Cursing in Private, Publically Polite: Huygens’ Reaction to the Antidotum of Calckman (1641) — Ad Leerintveld
• ON THE AUTHORS