The invention of the emblem book and the transmission of knowledge, ca. 1510-1610 / by 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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