"Il volume costituisce la prima edizione di un prezioso e raro manoscritto, corredato di una serie di figure emblematico-alchemiche, ascrivibile al XVII secolo e facente parte della collezione Verginelli-Rota della Biblioteca dell'Accademia dei Lincei di Roma."--Back inside flap…
"The art of the emblem is a pan-European phenomenon which developed in Western and Central Europe in the early modern period. It adopted meanings and motifs from Antiquity and the Middle Ages as part of a general humanistic impulse. Technological developments in printing that pe…
The art of the emblem is a pan-European phenomenon which developed in Western and Central Europe in the early modern period. It adopted meanings and motifs from Antiquity and the Middle Ages as part of a general humanistic impulse. Technological developments in printing that per…
The emblem book was invented by the humanist lawyer Andrea Alciato in 1531. The preponderance of juridical and normative themes, of images of rule and infraction, of obedience and error in the emblem books is critical to their purpose and interest. This book outlines the history…
