Gilles Corrozet
Gilles Corrozet (* 1510 ; † 1568 in Paris ) was a French writer, historian, printer, publisher and bookseller of the Renaissance .
Corrozet was an autodidact with no higher university education, who acquired a great deal of knowledge, including linguistics, and established himself as a writer of historical books about Paris, among other things. His first book on this from 1532 was something like a historical city guide (with the street names after the quarters of Paris). He also wrote a history of France and a French version of Marsilio Ficino's commentary on the symposium of Plato (Diffinition et perfection de l'amour) and an emblem book (Hecatomgraphie). In 1542 his translation of Aesop's Fables appeared .
As a printer, his emblem was a rose in a heart with the saying In corde prudentis requiescit sapientia .
Two of his sons and his son-in-law Nicolas Bonfons were publishers and printers, respectively.
Fonts
- La fleur des antiquitez de la noble et triumphante ville de Paris, Paris, 1532
- Blasons domestiques 1539
- Simulachres et historiées faces de la mort, Lyon, 1538
- Historiarum Veteris Testamenti Icones, Lyon, 1539 (with woodcuts by Holbein)
- Définition et perfection de l'amour, Paris: D. Janot, 1541–1542
- Les Fables du très ancien Esope, mises en rithme françoise, Paris 1542
- Hecatomgraphie, Paris: Denis Jacot 1540, further editions up to 1544 (Ilkley reprint: Scolar Press, 1974, with foreword by Alison Adams)
- Les Antiquitez, croniques et singularitez de Paris, Paris: 1552, reprinted by Nicolas Bonfons, 1586-1588
- Icones Mortis, Basel 1554
- Tapestry de l'église chrétienne
- Le thresor des histoires de France. Reduit par tiltres, en forme de lieux communs. Augmente et continue jusques a present, 1583 and many other editions
Web links
- Works by and about Gilles Corrozet in the German Digital Library
- Allison Adams: Gilles Corrozet's Hecatomgraphie (1540). In: Glasgow University Emblem website. Glasgow University, accessed May 3, 2015 (French).
- Literature by and about Gilles Corrozet in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
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SURNAME | Corrozet, Gilles |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French publisher, historian and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1510 |
DATE OF DEATH | 1568 |
Place of death | Paris |