Abstract: While he is principally known as the author of two vast collections, the Epitheta (1518) and the Officina (1520), J. Ravisius was also a letter-writer, editor, and above all a writer of verse. Following a recap of the contents, structure, and the history of this famous épithétaire, a veritable pioneer of the genre, N. Istasse illuminates the full rhetorical and poetic inventiveness of the regent of the College of Navarre, which is sometimes obscured by his work as a compiler and encyclopaedist.
