Omer Talon (Audomarus Talaeus) (c. 1510–1562) was a French humanist, a close ally of
Petrus Ramus
Petrus Ramus (; 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
He was born at the village ...
. 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
Vermandois
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. It is one of the three ancient arts of discourse ( trivium) along with grammar and logic/ dialectic. As an academic discipline within the humanities, rhetoric aims to study the techniques that speakers or w ...
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 study of deductively valid inferences or logical truths. It examines how conclusions follow from premises based on the structure o ...
. Talon's ''Institutiones oratoriae'' was then published in 1544 or 1545, and proved popular. It was hardly independent of Ramism (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]
Google Books
There are sources that make Ramus the author of the 1545 work, with Talon then writing the 1548 ''Rhetorica''.[
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References
External links
WorldCat page
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CERL pageOnline Books Page''Rhetorica'' (1549), online text
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1510s births
1562 deaths
French Renaissance humanists
16th-century French writers
16th-century French male writers
French male non-fiction writers