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Sir Geofroy William Tory, KCMG (31 July 1912 – 18 July 2012) was a British diplomat. Biography. The son of William Frank Tory and Edith Wreghitt, Tory was educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield and Queens’ College, Cambridge, where he took a Double First in French and German and was a contemporary of Donald Maclean. [1] .
Geoffroy Tory (also Geofroy, Latin "Godofredus Torinus") was born in Bourges around 1480 and died in Paris before 14 October 1533. He was a French humanist and an engraver, best known for adding accents on letters in French. His life's work has heavily influenced French publishing to this day.
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Vita e opere. Iniziato agli studi da un canonico della sua città, si recò poi in Italia, prima a Roma, dove frequentò il collegio della Sapienza, poi a Bologna per seguire in quella università le lezioni di Filippo Beroaldo. Dal 1507 al 1515 a Parigi insegnò e curò, principalmente per Henri Estienne, varie edizioni di autori classici e di ...
Geoffroy Tory was a publisher, printer, author, orthographic reformer, and prolific engraver who was mainly responsible for the French Renaissance style of book decoration and who played a leading part in popularizing in France the roman letter as against the prevailing Gothic.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Tory, Geofroy zhôfrwäˈ tôrēˈ [key], c.1480–1533, Parisian printer, typographer, and author, b. Bourges. After study in Italy, he won distinction as a professor in Paris and became editor to the printer Henri Estienne.
Geoffroy Tory, Le Champ Fleury, 1529. Personnalité incontournable de l’univers du livre à la Renaissance, Geoffroy Tory est à la fois un précurseur des règles et usages de la langue française, un éditeur humaniste et un artiste de talent.
