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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
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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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Talon, Omer 1510 births 1562 deaths French Renaissance humanists 16th-century French writers 16th-century male writers French male non-fiction writers
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 fromVermandois
Vermandois was a French county that appeared in the Merovingian period. Its name derives from that of an ancient tribe, the Viromandui. In the 10th century, it was organised around two castellan domains: St Quentin ( Aisne) and Péronne ( Som ...
, 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. 451–2Google Books.
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In 1543 Ramus in his ''Institutiones dialecticae'' announced that Talon would produce a rhetoric introduction to match this introduction tologic
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.
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(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. 250Google Books
There are sources that make Ramus the author of the 1545 work, with Talon then writing the 1548 ''Rhetorica''.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Talon, Omer 1510 births 1562 deaths French Renaissance humanists 16th-century French writers 16th-century male writers French male non-fiction writers