The Invention of the Emblem Book and the Transmission of Knowledge, circa 1510-1610 / Karl A.E. Enenkel.
This study reexamines the invention of the emblem book and discusses the novel textual and pictorial means that applied to the task of transmitting knowledge. It offers a fresh analysis of Alciato's Emblematum liber , focusing on his poetics of the emblem, and on how he actually construed emble...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden,, Boston : : BRILL,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 295. Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 33 |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxv, 463 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Illustrations
- Alciato
- The Emblematization of Nature, and the Poetics of Alciato's Epigrams
- Vernacular Forerunners of Alciato's Emblematum Liber
- A Manuscript Emblem Book before Alciato: Johann von Schwarzenberg's Mirror of Religious Virtue (Memorial der Tugent, circa 1510-1512)
- A Printed Emblem Book before Alciato: Johann von Schwarzenberg's Emblematization of Cicero's De officiis as a Mirror of Political Virtue
- The Emblematic Commentary as a Means of Transmitting Knowledge
- The Transformation of the Emblem Book into an Encyclopaedia: Stockhamer's Commentary on Alciato (1551/1556)
- The Game of Emblematic Interpretation and Emblematic Authorship: Hadrianus Junius' Emblemata (1565)
- Advanced Emblematic Transmission of Knowledge
- Early Modern Zoology as a Mirror of Princes: Joachim Camerarius' Quadrupedes (1595)
- The Transmission of Knowledge via Pictorial Figurations: Vaenius' Emblemata Horatiana (1607) as a Manual of Ethics
- Back Matter
- Bibliography
- Index Nominum.