Abstract
Abstract The present study aims to make accessible a little-known Latin document, first published in 1603, which contains a lively account of the reading, writing, and editorial practice of a late-Renaissance poly–math, and sheds new light on contemporary authorship and publishing in France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and the Low Countries. Its author, Nicolas de Nancel (1539-1610), pupil, then colleague, secretary and biographer of Peter Ramus, was a prolific writer on a great variety of subjects, a university professor (or rather teacher) in Paris and Douai (1562-4), a scholar, a translator and editor of Greek texts (most of which appear to have been lost), a mathematician and writer of medical treatises, as well as being a practising doctor in Tours from 1569, and at Font evrault from 1587 to the royal abbess, Éléonore de Bourbon, and her community of nuns.
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