Charles Moseley
Ashgate
Hardback
332
1990
This new work contains one hundred emblems chosen from those books produced between 1531 and 1647. A substantial introduction places the emblem tradition within the wider framework of literature art and related disciplines discusses the contemporary use of emblems outlines emblem theory and analyses the meanings which lie behind both the emblems and the verses which accompany them. Each emblem has detailed notes and an English translation where necessary and there is a representative cross-section of emblematists such as Alciati de la Perriere Whitney Whither and Quarles.