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Author Visser, A. S. Q. (Arnoud S. Q.)

Title Joannes Sambucus and the learned image : the use of the emblem in late-Renaissance humanism / Arnoud S.Q. Visser
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 296 pages) : illustrations
Series Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 128
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 128. 0920-8607
Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One. The World of the Author; Chapter Two. The World of the Publisher; Chapter Three. Sambucus About the Emblem; Chapter Four. The Use of Dedications; Chapter Five. The Epigrams: Subject-Matter, Structure and Style; Chapter Six. The Uses of Classical Sources; Chapter Seven. Word and Image in Pictura and Epigram; Conclusion; Appendix One. Concordance to the Emblems; Appendix Two. List of Dedicatees; Appendix Three. Relations Between Epigram and Pictura; Select Bibliography; General Index; Index of Emblems
Summary This volume provides the first full study of Sambucus' influential Neo-Latin emblem book. By analysing individual emblems and the historical contexts in which they were shaped, a new picture emerges of the use of the emblem for Renaissance humanists
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-287) and index
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Subject Zsámboki, János, 1531-1584. Emblemata
SUBJECT Sambucus, Johannes. swd
Emblemata. swd
Subject Emblem books, Latin -- History
Emblems in literature.
Humanists -- Hungary
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Latin.
Emblem books, Latin
Emblems in literature
Humanists
Intellectual life
Zeithintergrund
Emblemliteratur
Emblem
Humanisme (cultuurgeschiedenis)
Emblemata.
SUBJECT Hungary -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
Subject Hungary
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004059623
ISBN 9781429427005
1429427000
9781433704024
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9789047405399
9047405390
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9781280859533
9786610859535
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