ABSTRACT
This essay studies the reading of History in the sixteenth century, articulating a reflection on the emergence of the press in France, and on the role of humanistic libraries in this context, based on the relationship established between three men who lived in France: the chaplain Gaston Olivier, the bookseller Galliot du Pré, and the lawyer Pierre Droict de Gaillard. As a background for the proposed reflection, the text suggests to think about historiography not only from its epistemological dimensions, but also considering its material or bookish reality, that is, the book as a condition for the practice of reading History, and therefore, for historical knowledge itself.
Keywords:
History of historiography; reading of History; 16th-century France