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Painting is of Omer Talon Lawyer 1595 - 1652 not Omer Talon Humanist 1510 - 1562. Omer Talon (Audomarus Talaeus) (c. 1510–1562) was a French humanist, a close ally of
Petrus Ramus Petrus Ramus (french: Pierre de La Ramée; Anglicized as Peter Ramus ; 1515 – 26 August 1572) was a French humanist, logician, and educational reformer. A Protestant convert, he was a victim of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. Early life ...
. Biographical details are few; and there are some quite serious bibliographical difficulties in distinguishing Talon and Ramus as authors (prolific and given to teamwork).


Life

He was from
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, the same region as Ramus. According to the ''Biographie universelle'' of Michaud, he had a teaching position in
rhetoric Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...
in 1534, at the
Collège du cardinal Lemoine Jean Lemoine, Jean Le Moine, Johannes Monachus (1250, Crécy-en-Ponthieu – 22 August 1313, Avignon) was a French canon lawyer, cardinal (Catholicism), Cardinal, bishop of Arras and papal legate. He served Boniface VIII as representative to Phil ...
in Paris. Joseph Michaud, Louis Gabriel Michaud, ''Biographie universelle'', Volume 44 (1826), pp. 451–2
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Works

In 1543 Ramus in his ''Institutiones dialecticae'' announced that Talon would produce a rhetoric introduction to match this introduction to
logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premises ...
. Talon's ''Institutiones oratoriae'' was then published in 1544 or 1545, and proved popular. It was hardly independent of
Ramism Ramism was a collection of theories on rhetoric, logic, and pedagogy based on the teachings of Petrus Ramus, a French academic, philosopher, and Huguenot convert, who was murdered during the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in August 1572. Accor ...
(the system of ideas developed by Ramus), however. It was reprinted in the 1557 ''Rhétorique française'' of Antoine Foquelin. George Alexander Kennedy, ''Classical Rhetoric and its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times'' (1999), p. 250
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There are sources that make Ramus the author of the 1545 work, with Talon then writing the 1548 ''Rhetorica''.


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WorldCat page
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CERL pageOnline Books Page''Rhetorica'' (1549), online text
{{DEFAULTSORT:Talon, Omer 1510 births 1562 deaths French Renaissance humanists 16th-century French writers 16th-century male writers French male non-fiction writers