Abstract
The author studies the relationship between Erasmus and Richard Pynson, the printer of both the king and the English humanists. He first proposes a survey of the history of books in England, then describes the career of Pynson, a Norman who first worked in Rouen before settling in London in the 1490s – Pynson became English in 1513 – and who produced over five hundred books until his death in 1529. In 1513, Pynson published a princeps edition of Plutarch, translated by Erasmus: in fact a rewritten version of Libellus de constructione octo partium orationis by William Lily, the first “high master” of John Colet’s Saint Paul’s school.
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