Le Specimen Epithetorum (1518) et les Epitheta (1524) J. Ravisius Textor compilateur et créateur

While he is principally known as the author of two vast collections, the Epitheta (1518) and the Officina (1520), J. Ravisius was also a letter-writer, editor, and above all a writer of verse. Following a recap of the contents, structure, and the history of this famous épithétaire, a veritable pioneer of the genre, N. Istasse illuminates the full rhetorical and poetic inventiveness of the regent of the College of Navarre, which is sometimes obscured by his work as a compiler and encyclopaedist.