Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550. Emblematum liber

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Name (Latin)
Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550. Emblematum liber
Other forms of name
Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550. Andreae Alciati Emblemata
Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550. Emblemata
Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550. Emblemas
Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550. Emblemata Andreae Alciati, I.V. Doctoris clarissimi
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VIAF: 177731903
Wikidata: Q2342127
Library of congress: n 86068516
Sources of Information
  • Andreae Alciati Emblemata, 1621.
  • Köhler, J. Der "Emblematum liber" von Andreas Alciatus (1492-1550), 1986.
  • Leeman, F.W.G. Alciatus' Emblemata, 1984.
  • His Emblemas, 1985?:p. 8 (Emblematum liber)
  • His Emblemata Andreae Alciati, I.V. Doctoris clarissimi, 1567:t.p. (Emblemata Andreae Alciati, I.V. Doctoris clarissimi)
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The Emblemata, or Emblematum liber first appeared in Augsburg (Germany) in 1531 under the title Viri Clarissimi D. Andreae Alciati Iurisconsultiss. Mediol. Ad D. Chonradum Peutingerum Augustanum, Iurisconsultum Emblematum Liber. Produced by the publisher Heinrich Steyner, the unauthorized first print edition was compiled from a manuscript of Latin poems which the Italian jurist Andrea Alciato had dedicated to his friend Conrad Peutinger and circulated to his acquaintances. The 1531 edition was soon followed by a 1534 edition authorized by Alciato: published in Paris by Christian Wechel, this appeared under the title Andreae Alciati Emblematum Libellus ("Andrea Alciato's Little Book of Emblems"). The word "emblemata" is the plural of the Greek word ἔμβλημα, meaning a piece of inlay or mosaic, or an ornament: in his preface to Peutinger, Alciato describes his emblems as a learned recreation, a pastime for humanists steeped in classical culture.

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