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{{Short description|One of the most prominentFrench humanist bookseller-printers in 16th-centuryprinter Lyon(c.1518–1589)}}

__NOTOC__<!--{{Infobox person/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL}}-->[[File:Lione, guillaume rouillé, bibbia vulgata, 1566 (10.B.1.4) 00.JPG|thumb|Edition of the Vulgata[[Vulgate]] by Guillaume Rouillé, 1566]]

'''Guillaume Rouillé''' ({{IPA-fr|ɡi.jom ʁu.je}}; {{lang-la|'''Gulielmus Rovillium'''|italic=no}}; {{circa}} 1518&ndash;{{snd}}1589), also called '''Roville'''<ref>The printer's preface to his famous ''Promptuaire des médalles des plus renommées personnes'' is headed "Guillaume Roville au lecteur".</ref> or '''Rovillius''', was one of the most prominent [[Humanism|humanist]] bookseller-[[Printer (publishing)|printer]]s in 16th-century [[Lyon]]. He invented the pocket book format called the ''[[sextodecimo]]'', printed with sixteen leaves to the folio sheet, half the size of the [[octavo]] format, and published many works of history and poetry as well as medicine, in addition to his useful compilations and handbooks.<ref>A useful biography is Natalie Z. Davis, "Publisher Guillaume Rouillé: Businessman and Humanist", in R.J. Schoeck, ed. ''Editing Sixteenth-Century Texts'', (Toronto, 1966) pp. 72-112.</ref>

Rouillé was born in [[Tours]]. Though he was a Frenchman, he served his apprenticeship in the [[Venice|Venetian]] printing-house of [[Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari]], and retained his connections with Venice as a source of texts after his arrival in Lyon around 1543.<ref>Davis 1966.</ref>

Among his works was the French translation by Barthélemy Aneau of [[Andrea Alciato]]'s pioneering [[emblem book]], which formed part of a major publishing venture in Lyons by the team of Guillaume Rouillé and his printer Macé Bonhomme, 1549, which extended to translations in Italian and Spanish.<ref>[http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/french/books.php?id=FALb Alison Adams, "Andrea Alciato's Emblemes, Lyons, Macé Bonhomme for Guillaume Rouille, 1549"]; Alison Adams, et al. ''A Bibliography of French Emblem Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries'', 1999, ''s.v.'' "Alciati"</ref> Rouillé also published books of ''imprese'' by [[Paolo Giovio]] and [[Gabriele Simeoni]].<ref>Davis 1999:6; the volume is ''Le sentenziose imprese di Monsignor Paulo Giovio e del Signor Gabriel Simeoni ridotte in rima per il detto Simeoni'', 1561.</ref> Another work of [[iconography]] was the useful compilation of portrait types of [[Classical Antiquity|Antiquity]], ''{{Lang|la|[[Promptuarii iconum insigniorum à seculo hominum, subiectis eorum vitis, per compendium ex probatissimis autoribus desumptis]]''}} (First and second parts, 1553, etc.) in which each [[medal]]-like portrait head was followed by a brief biography.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/exhibits/antiquity/occupations7a.htm |title=Sample page illustrated |publisher=Brynmawr.edu |access-date=2012-08-18 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054559/http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/exhibits/antiquity/occupations7a.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Later he was one of the four printers that edited the "Lyon printers tribute to Michael de Villanueva" edition of a Materia Medica, as a tribute for his friend, [[Michael Servetus|Michael "Servetus"]], who was executed for heresy.<ref>[[Michael Servetus|Michael "Servetus"]].[http://michaelservetusresearch.com/ENGLISH/works.html Michael Servetus Research] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113223851/http://www.michaelservetusresearch.com/ENGLISH/works.html |date=2012-11-13 }} Website with graphical study on the Materia Medica of 1554 by Mattioli and Michael "Servetus"</ref><ref>2011 Gonzalez Echeverria, "The love for truth. Life and work of Michael Servetus", (El amor a la verdad. Vida y obra de Miguel Servet.), printed by Navarro y Navarro, Zaragoza, collaboration with the Government of Navarra, Department of Institutional Relations and Education of the Government of Navarra,p179-181.</ref> French editions followed, ''Promptuaire des Medalles des plus renommées personnes...'', 1581, etc. His ''Sententiae omnes undiquaque selectissimae'', 1555, compiled moral maxims from the works of [[Aristotle]].

On his title pages his markemblem was prominently displayed: an eagle displayedtriumphant atop a globe on a pedestal, flanked by serpents with entwined tails.<ref>{{cite book|first=Natalie Zemon|last=Davis|author-link=Natalie Zemon Davis|chapter=Publisher Guillaume Rouillé, Businessman and Humanist|editor-first=Richard J.|editor-last=Schoeck|title=Editing Sixteenth-Century Texts: Papers Given at the Editorial Conference, University of Toronto October 1965|location=Toronto|publisher = [[University of Toronto Press]]|date=1966|pages=93-95|isbn=9781487582128|url=https://www.academia.edu/37216827/Natalie_Zemon_Davis_Publisher_Guillaume_Rouill%C3%A9_Businessman_and_Humanist_in_R_J_Schoeck_ed_Editing_Sixteenth_Century_Texts_Toronto_University_of_Toronto_Press_1966_72_112|access-date=2022-12-28|via=[[Academia.edu]]}}</ref> His heirs continued the press into the 17th century.

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