The English Emblem Tradition

The English Emblem Tradition
Author: Alan R. Young
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780802043672

This volume of the Index Emblematicus deals with three early seventeenth-century works: Remaines of a Greater Worke Concerning Britaine, by William Camden; The Mirrour of Maiestie, by H.G.; and Otto van Veen's Amorum Emblemata. Camden's Remaines is noteworthy for using imprese in language as pictorial image; for mixing imprese with cognizance; and for considering impresa itself as the identity of the individual rather than as a general principle. H.G.'s Mirrour is remarkable in that every one of its emblems consists of a personal heraldic coat of arms of an identified statesman twinned with a pictorial engraving, motto, and epigram on an opposite page. Van Veen's Emblemata enters literary history as a volume of emblem pictures consecrated to secular love experience, encapsulating some of the conventions of the sonnet sequences and having a strong influence on religious love literature. Each book is reproduced with critical and bibliographic introductions, translation of the poems and mottos, descriptions of the emblems, and indices to the visual and verbal components of the works.

The French Emblem

The French Emblem
Author: Laurence Grove
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2000
Genre: Emblem books, French
ISBN: 9782600004121

Complète les deux ouvrages publiés dans la même collection, d'Alison Saunders, Stephen Rawles et Alison Adams. L'index des noms et des lieux enrichit la bibliographie des oeuvres secondaires consacrées aux emblèmes français et en facilite l'utilisation.

The Italian Emblem

The Italian Emblem
Author: Donato Mansueto
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780852618325

The Italian Emblem: A Collection of Essays is the twelfth in the series 'Glasgow Emblem Studies'. This volume is linked to a project for the study and digitization of Italian emblem books held in the Stirling Maxwell Collection (Glasgow), financed by the Sixth EU Framework Programme for activities in the field of research. It aims at exploring the history, forms, themes of the Italian emblem tradition, with particular attention to sixteenth-century emblem books and their open, multifaceted, and metamorphic nature. To capture this nature, the volume includes contributions from different disciplines, ranging from literature to history of art and political philosophy, supplied by the following distinguished scholars: Guido Arbizzoni (University of Urbino 'Carlo Bo'), Monica Calabritto (Hunter College, CUNY), Giuseppe Cascione (University of Bari), Sonia Maffei (University of Bergamo), Anna Maranini (University of Bologna), Liana de Girolami Cheney (University of Massachusetts Lowell), Silvia Volterrani (CTL-Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa). French text.

Amorum Emblemata

Amorum Emblemata
Author: Otto van Veen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

The introduction places the collection in the context of Veen's emblematic oeuvre, and considers the book's contribution to the Dutch love-emblem tradition.

Theatre and Religion

Theatre and Religion
Author: Richard Dutton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719063633

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Emblemata Hispanica

Emblemata Hispanica
Author: Pedro F. Campa
Publisher:
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN:

Emblem books--books containing pictorial representations whose symbolic meaning is expressed in words--were produced in great quantities and in numerous languages during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Because literary critics and art historians increasingly recognize the importance of the emblem in Renaissance and Baroque studies, this book answers the need for a bibliography listing the locations of all known emblem books in Spanish, as well as those translated into Spanish, written by Spaniards in other languages, and polyglot editions that contain a Spanish text. Covered in this bibliography are all emblem books published from the beginning to the end of the Spanish Golden Age, as well as a wide range of secondary sources on relevant subjects, among them mythography, paradoxography, numismatics, fetes, funerals, proverbs, apothegms, antiquarianism, collecting, and pertinent studies in art history and architecture. Providing call numbers for library locations, information on facsimile reprints, and microform editions, the work is extensively indexed--by date and place of publication, by printers and booksellers, by authors and artists, and by dedicatees, as well as by subject.

Searching for the Secrets of Nature

Searching for the Secrets of Nature
Author: Simon Varey
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2000
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780804739641

This collection of essays by historians, historians of science and medicine, and literary and textual scholars from several countries analyzes the achievements of Dr. Francisco Hernández (1515-87), author of the monumental The Natural History of New Spain, in the history of medicine and science in Europe and the Americas.