|
Amorum Emblemata (1608)
Edited by Karel Porteman,
|
![Image: Book cover for Amorum Emblemata (1608)]() |
Ashgate, 1996
Hardback. ISBN: 1 85928 001 3
The Amorum emblemata (Antwerp 1608) of the Antwerp artist and humanist Otto Vaenius is not only the largest, but from an European point of view also the most influential collection of love emblems ever published. It left many traces in literature as well as in the visual arts. It was published in several combinations of languages. The present book reproduces in facsimile the edition with the Latin, English and French texts. At the same time the reader will be provided with the epigrams in Italian, Dutch and Spanish as well. The book is preceded by an elaborate introduction on Vaenius' emblematical oeuvre, the origins of the Amorum emblemata , the author of the English texts (R. Verstegen), the genre of the love emblem and Vaenius' contribution to it and the way his book has been constructed.
|
