Bartas, Guillaume de Saluste du (1544-1590)

French poet. His religious poem La Semaine, ou Création du monde/The Week, or Creation of the World (1578), an epic on the Creation, probably inspired by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso's Sette giornate/Seven Days, soon went through at least 25 editions and was translated into 6 languages. His La Seconde Semaine/The Second Week (1584-1603) was unfinished.

Bartas was a Huguenot and served Henry IV at court and as a soldier. He died from wounds received at the Battle of Ivry.