Abstract: This work studies how personification was progressively conceptualised in aesthetic treatises and poetics, and how it was realised in literature, drama, painting, and engraving. It allows us to understand the success of this figure, situated between image and discourse.
Keyword: Littérature de l'Antiquité tardive, littérature du Moyen Âge, littérature de la Renaissance, littérature du xviie et du xviiie siècle, théâtre, peinture, gravure, rhétorique, philosophie