Claude Paradin, Devises Héroïques [Heroic Emblems]

Marc-André Wiesmann (Skidmore College)

Ed. by Robert J. Hudson, Brigham Young University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.02: French Writing and Culture in the Renaissance, 1400-1600.
Vol. editors: Robert J. Hudson (Brigham Young University), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), Phillip John Usher (New York University), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1557

Places

France (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Treatise

Resources

Even if Claude Paradin (c. 1510–1573) was born in foothills of the Jura at Cuiseaux (Bourgogne), his ambitions and skills required the humanistic hub of Lyon as the competitive ground on which to thrive. A Renaissance innovator in the area of ekphrasis, in the preamble to his Devises heroïques (1557), Paradin elegantly articulates the theoretical function of a manual that combines woodcut images and familial mottoes. To wit, he explains the semiotic processing of a devise (a device or impresa), which is worn as a badge to indicate either the allegiance to or the possession of an individual or family and associates the visual (the domain of pictura) and the written (that of …

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Citation: Wiesmann, Marc-André. "Devises Héroïques". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 May 2018 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38847, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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