Robert Estienne, Royal Printer: An Historical Study of the elder Stephanus

by Elizabeth Armstrong

• ISBN13: 9780521170666
• ISBN10: 0521170664
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book was originally published in 1954. Robert Estienne was born in Paris in the early years of the sixteenth century, the son of a successful printer-bookseller. He became a printer himself, and one distinguished not only for the quality of his printing, but also for his scholarship. He was the most outstanding figure of the Parisian booktrade at the moment when that trade was one of the most important agencies of the various intellectual movements which we summarise as 'The Renaissance'. Estienne was not only a classical but also a biblical scholar and editor (he is remembered as much for his editions of the Bible as for the beauty of his Cicero or for his use of the Garamond Greek types). Mrs Armstrong gives a full-length historical study of an important and admirable figure.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Preface

Translations, transcriptions, names and dates

Abbreviation

Introduction

The Merchant-Craftsman

Origins of the Estienne Press

Robert Estienne's beginnings

Business policy and publicity

Output and sales

Privilege and piracy

Production

Staff and family

The Scholar-Publisher

A scholar in business

The Bible in Latin

From Terence to the Thesaurus linguae latinae

Lexicography: Latin and French

General publishing 1526-1539

General publishing 1539-1550

Relations with Budé and other authors

The King's Printer

Appointment as Printer in Hebrew and Latin

Appointment as Printer in Greek

Greek publishing 1544-1551

The King's Printer and the King's publicists

Estienne at court

The King's Printer: public servant

The King's Printer and the Censors

Censorship in France: prohibition and expurgation

Francis I and the Louvain condemnation of Estienne

From Francis I to Henry II: Estienne before the Privy Council

From Francis I to Henry II: the Chambre Ardente: the final ban

'Estienne's party'

Estienne and the Faculty of Theology

Geneva

The move from Paris

Robert and Charles: the transition

'At the Olive-tree of Robert Estienne': 1551-1559

Estienne and the Council of Geneva 1: privileges and a prosecution

Estienne and the Coucil of Geneva 2: the censorship

Estienne's will and death

Estienne's faith

A letter from Estienne to Cordier

Appendices

Select bibliography

Index

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