Gilles Corrozet

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Les Antiquitez ... de Paris 1561

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

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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