Emblemata

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By Andrea Alciato.
Translated by Paul Summers Young.

Alciato was a jurist and writer, born in Milan in 1492, he is the founder of the school of legal humanists, but his most famous work remains the Emblemata, first published in 1531. This emblem book combines Latin verses with accompanying woodcuts creating a new genre that reached enormous popularity. Starting as a companion to Adagia by Erasmus of Rotterdam the book became archetypal of a new way of relating art and literature through the glass of Iconography. Our Edition follows the 1534 Emblematum Libellus, published in Paris by Weichel, being the first authorized version by Alciato himself. All 113 illustrations are presented with great care in full detail together with a new complete translation by Paul Summers Young.

By Andrea Alciato.
Translated by Paul Summers Young.

Alciato was a jurist and writer, born in Milan in 1492, he is the founder of the school of legal humanists, but his most famous work remains the Emblemata, first published in 1531. This emblem book combines Latin verses with accompanying woodcuts creating a new genre that reached enormous popularity. Starting as a companion to Adagia by Erasmus of Rotterdam the book became archetypal of a new way of relating art and literature through the glass of Iconography. Our Edition follows the 1534 Emblematum Libellus, published in Paris by Weichel, being the first authorized version by Alciato himself. All 113 illustrations are presented with great care in full detail together with a new complete translation by Paul Summers Young.

  • Black Letter Press

    Hardcover bound in Fedrigoni Imitlin, Measures 140x215 mm, 120 gram black Endpapers, Printed on 115 g wood-free, age resistant Cream paper, Sewn Book Block, Ribbon marker and Headbands, Foil on the front and spine, Blind deboss on the backcover.

    2nd Edition

 

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Black Letter Press is a small independent publisher located close to Hannover in Northern Germany, founded by Alice and Claudio Rocchetti in 2018 in Turin, with the publication of Giambattista della Porta's Natural Magick.

BLP specializes in the revival of rare and antique books on a broad range of topics, including the sciences and history of science, poetry, occult philosophy, art, curious and unusual literature, and more.

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Alciato was a jurist and writer, born in Milan in 1492, he is the founder of the school of legal humanists, but his most famous work remains the Emblemata, first published in 1531. This emblem book combines Latin verses with accompanying woodcuts creating a new genre that reached enormous popularity. Starting as a companion to Adagia by Erasmus of Rotterdam the book became archetypal of a new way of relating art and literature through the glass of Iconography. Our Edition follows the 1534 Emblematum Libellus, published in Paris by Weichel, being the first authorized version by Alciato himself.

All 113 illustrations are presented with great care in full detail together with a new complete translation by Paul Summers Young.