Les Embl├¿mes: fac-simile de l'├®dition lyonnaise Mac├®-Bonhomme de 1551
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Alciat, Andrea
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1997
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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.
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Klincksieck
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12281 (Access ID)