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BOCCHIUS, Achillis (1488-1562)

Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere quas serio ludebat libri quinque

Boloniae
Aedie novae academiae Bocchianae
1555

€4.500,00

In-8°, [26] ff, 347, [1], pp. Illustrated with 151 emblematical engravings by Giulio Bonasone. Compete with the very rare privilege leaf and poem to Paul III. Bound in full black morocco, one hinge part. broken, gilded edges, signed by Thibaron-Joly

First edition. Ref. Praz, p. 276 ; Adams B-2194 ; Landwehr, Romanic 162. Achille Bocchi's best-known work, ""Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere"" ""takes as its subject the whole of universal knowledge: physics, metaphysics, theology, dialectic, Love, Life and Death, packaging them under the veil of fables and myths"" (p.114, Manning, ""The Emblem""). The title page situates this work in the tradition of ""serio ludere"" the symbolic literature of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Ref. Karen PINKUS - Picturing silence. Emblem, Language, Counter-Reformation Materiality; 1999

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