@article{Pauwels_2020, title={Légitimer le traité technique : la rhétorique de Philibert De l’Orme dans les Nouvelles inventions et le Premier tome}, volume={6}, url={https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/oi/article/view/12361}, DOI={10.13128/opus-12361}, abstractNote={<p>Philibert de L’Orme’s <em>Nouvelles inventions pour bien bastir</em> (1561), on carpentry, and books III and IV in his <em>Premier tome de l’architecture</em> (1567), on stereotomy, are the first printed texts dealing with purely technical questions. By publishing them, de L’Orme broke with the traditional methods used in the corporations to transmit technical skills: he incorporated the old oral know-how in the field of printed humanist culture. To legitimate this approach, he needed to use rhetorical techniques in his text. A precise narration explains how he presented his project to the king, and how Henry II ordered him to write a book on this subject. So he justified the publication of the <em>Nouvelles inventions</em> by a royal order, which protected him from the craftsmen’s criticisms. On the other hand, he presented an original allegory of the good architect in book III of the <em>Premier tome</em>, showing a new and prestigious aspect of the profession: the architect is no longer a mason, working in the field of the Aristotelian category of “art”, but also a humanist concerned with “prudence”: as such, he does not belong to the world of the corporations and may publish his works.</p>}, journal={Opus Incertum}, author={Pauwels, Yves}, year={2020}, month={Dec.}, pages={68–75} }