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__NOTOC__<!--{{Infobox person/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL}}-->[[File:Lione, guillaume rouillé, bibbia vulgata, 1566 (10.B.1.4) 00.JPG|thumb|Edition of the [[Vulgate]] by Guillaume Rouillé, 1566]]
'''Guillaume Rouillé''' ({{IPA-fr|ɡi.jom ʁu.je}}; {{lang-la|'''Gulielmus Rovillium'''|italic=no}}; {{circa}} 1518{{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]],
On his title pages his
Rouillé died in Lyon on 20 June 1589.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Guillaume Rouillé (1518?-1589) |url=https://data.bnf.fr/12255467/guillaume_rouille/ |access-date=2023-02-06 |website=data.bnf.fr |language=en}}</ref>
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