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"Andrew Alciat, the celebrated jurisconsult, remarkable, as some testify, for serious defects, as for his surpassing knowledge and power of mind, is characterized by Erasmus as “the orator best skilled in law,” and “the lawyer most eloquent of speech;”—of his composition there was published in 1522, at Milan, an Emblematum Libellus, or “Little Book of Emblems.”[49] It established, if it did not introduce, a new style for Emblem Literature, the classical in the place of the simply grotesque and humorous, or of the heraldic and mythic. It is by no means certain that the change should be named an unmixed gain. Stately and artificial, the school of Alciat and his followers indicates at every stanza its full acquaintance with mythologies Greek and Roman, but it is deficient in the easy expression which distinguishes the poet of nature above him whom learning chiefly guides: it seldom betrays either enthusiasm of genius or depth of imaginative power."--Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers (1869) by Henry Green

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Andrea Alciato (8 May 1492 – 12 January 1550) was an Italian jurist and writer. Alciati is best known for his Emblemata, published in dozens of editions from 1531 onward. This collection of short Latin verse texts and accompanying woodcuts created an entire European genre, the emblem book, which attained enormous popularity in continental Europe and Great Britain.

Exemplary are woodcuts such as Senex puellam amans.

Biography

Alciati was born in Alzate Brianza, near Milan, and settled in France in the early 16th century. He displayed great literary skill in his exposition of the laws, and was one of the first to interpret the civil law by the history, languages and literature of antiquity, and to substitute original research for the servile interpretations of the glossators. He published many legal works, and some annotations on Tacitus. Alciati is most famous for his Emblemata, published in dozens of editions from 1531 onward. This collection of short Latin verse texts and accompanying woodcuts created an entire European genre, the emblem book, which attained enormous popularity in continental Europe and Great Britain.

He is regarded as the founder of the French school of legal humanists.

Alciati died at Pavia in 1550.

Works

  • Annotationes in tres libros Codicis (1515)
  • Emblematum libellus (1522)
  • Opera omnia (Basel 1546-49)
  • Rerum Patriae, seu Historiae Mediolanensis, Libri IV (Milan, 1625) a history of Milan,

Pages linking in as of Dec 2021

An ass eating thistles, Antonio Agustín y Albanell, Antonio Ricardo, Aurelio (Rome), Barthélemy Aneau, Biblioteca Marciana, Bonifacius Amerbach, Book of Jonah, Celio Secondo Curione, Cesare Ripa, Circe, Diego de Saavedra Fajardo, Emblemata, Federico Faruffini, Francesco Alciati, Francisco Sánchez de las Brozas, François Connan, Geoffrey Whitney, Giasone del Maino, Girolamo Maggi, Guillaume Rouillé, Hadrianus Junius, Hector, Hugues Doneau, Insubria, Invidia, James Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Arran, Janus Cornarius, Jean de Tournes, Johannes Secundus, John Calvin, John Selden, Juan de Mal Lara, Kick the bucket, Legal humanists, Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Milan, Painted frieze of the Bodleian Library, Pandora's box, Protests against early modern witch trials, Proteus, Res publica Christiana, Royal entry, Scottish Renaissance painted ceilings, Scrofa semilanuta, Sebastian Gryphius, Siege of Sancerre, The Ass Carrying an Image, The Astrologer who Fell into a Well, The Beaver (fable), The Blind Man and the Lame, The Crow and the Snake, The Eagle and the Beetle, The Elm and the Vine, The Fowler and the Snake, The Fox and the Mask, The Gourd and the Palm-tree, The Lion Grown Old, The Lion, the Boar and the Vultures, The Mouse and the Oyster, The Sick Kite, The Trumpeter Taken Captive, The Two Pots, The Walnut Tree, Theodorus Janssonius van Almeloveen, Thrasybulus, Washing the Ethiopian White




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