Les Embl├¿mes: fac-simile de l'├®dition lyonnaise Mac├®-Bonhomme de 1551

Title

en_US Les Embl├¿mes: fac-simile de l'├®dition lyonnaise Mac├®-Bonhomme de 1551

Description

Andr├® Alciat

Creator

en_US Alciat, Andrea See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Alciatus, Andrew

en_US Laurens, Pierre (Preface)

Date

2022-10-13T19:19:23Z

2020-02

en_US 1997

Date Available

2022-10-13T19:19:23Z

Date Issued

en_US 1997

Abstract

en_US This edition has provided me a chance to walk through Alciatus' original collection. One observation is that there are more myths and fewer fables represented here than I had thought. The "Icarus" in #113 and "Aeneas with Anchises" in 209 may be among the best illustrations. The first clear fable inclusion I find here is Emblem #13, titled "Non tibi sed religioni." The ass carries a religious symbol; of course the ass thinks that the veneration of people as he passes by is for him. I recounted this fable to bishops at their retreat some years ago, and people who were there still remember the moment! I find these other potential inclusions of fables: #67 on washing the newly purchased Ethiopian slave; #74 on neglecting a prey at hand to seek other prey; #95 with an ass carrying rich provender but feeding itself on thistles; #101, with a rodent captured by a clam; #137 on two beasts fighting only to feed the waiting vulture; #173 where the blind man carries the lame; #179 (2P); and #203 showing a wolf and a head with the final quotation "It has no brains." There is a T of C at the end and a fold-out concordance among emblem books leading up to the 1551 edition, done by Florence Vuilleumier.

Identifier

en_US 12281 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/137812

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Klincksieck

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PN6349.A4 1997 See all items with this value

Emblems See all items with this value