Fool's Cap World Map
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| "Thou shalt soon perceive that all the world is mad, that it is melancholy, dotes; that it is (which [[Epichthonius Cosmopolites]] expressed not many years since in a [[Fool's Cap World Map|map) made like a fool's head]] (with that motto, Caput helleboro dignum) a crazed head, ''cavea stultorum'', a fool's paradise, or as Apollonius, a common prison of gulls, cheaters, flatterers, &c. and needs to be reformed.""--''[[The Anatomy of Melancholy]]'' (1621) by Robert Burton | "Thou shalt soon perceive that all the world is mad, that it is melancholy, dotes; that it is (which [[Epichthonius Cosmopolites]] expressed not many years since in a [[Fool's Cap World Map|map) made like a fool's head]] (with that motto, Caput helleboro dignum) a crazed head, ''cavea stultorum'', a fool's paradise, or as Apollonius, a common prison of gulls, cheaters, flatterers, &c. and needs to be reformed.""--''[[The Anatomy of Melancholy]]'' (1621) by Robert Burton | ||
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| - | 'Hic est mundi punctus et materia gloriae nostrae, hic sedes, hic honores gerimus, hic exercemus imperia, hic opes cupimus, hic tumultuatur humanum genus, hic instauramus bella, etiam civica.' | + | "Hic est mundi punctus et materia gloriae nostrae, hic sedes, hic honores gerimus, hic exercemus imperia, hic opes cupimus, hic tumultuatur humanum genus, hic instauramus bella, etiam civica." |
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| - | 'For in the whole [[universe]] the [[Earth]] is nothing else and this is the substance of our glory, this is its [[habitation]], here it is that we fill positions of power and covet wealth, and throw mankind into an uproar, and launch [[wars]], even [[civil war|civil ones]].' | + | "For in the whole [[universe]] the [[Earth]] is nothing else and this is the substance of our glory, this is its [[habitation]], here it is that we fill positions of power and covet wealth, and throw mankind into an uproar, and launch [[wars]], even [[civil war|civil ones]]." |
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| - | [[Fool's Cap World Map]][https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fool%27s_Cap_Map_of_the_World.jpg][https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fool%27s_Cap_World_Map_RMG_L8314-001.jpg] (c. 1590s) is an anonymous [[engraving]] depicting a [[world globe]] wearing a [[fool's cap]]. | + | [[Fool's Cap World Map]] (c. 1590s) is an anonymous [[engraving]] depicting a [[world globe]] wearing a [[fool's cap]]. |
| - | The map is based on [[Ortelius]]'s third '[[Typus Orbis Terrarum]],' which suggests a publication date after 1587. | + | The map is based on [[Abraham Ortelius]]'s third '[[Typus Orbis Terrarum]],' which suggests a publication date after 1587. |
| - | Published by an unknown maker, it shows a fool's or jester's cap with a [[world map]] where the face would be. In this conceit, it is based on an earlier woodcut map by [[Jean de Gourmont]] found in [[Michel de Marolles|Marolles]], volume 201 page 108[https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53090096d/f106.item]. | + | Published by an unknown maker, it shows a fool's or jester's cap with a [[world map]] where the face would be. In this conceit, it is based on an earlier woodcut map by [[Jean de Gourmont]] found in [[Michel de Marolles|Marolles]], volume 201 page 108. The text in Gourmont's original has been [[latinized]]. |
| The text is in Latin : (panel on the left) '[[Democritus]] Abderites deridebat, [[Heraclites]] Ephesius deflebat, [[Epichthonnis Cosmopolites]] deformabat' / 'Democritus of Abdera laughed at it' [the world], 'Heraclitus of Ephesus wept over it', 'Epichtonius Cosmopolites portrayed it'; | The text is in Latin : (panel on the left) '[[Democritus]] Abderites deridebat, [[Heraclites]] Ephesius deflebat, [[Epichthonnis Cosmopolites]] deformabat' / 'Democritus of Abdera laughed at it' [the world], 'Heraclitus of Ephesus wept over it', 'Epichtonius Cosmopolites portrayed it'; | ||
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| There is an allusive reference to this map in Robert Burton's ''[[Anatomy of Melancholy]]'' (1621). | There is an allusive reference to this map in Robert Burton's ''[[Anatomy of Melancholy]]'' (1621). | ||
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| - | Fool's World Map: 'Stultorum infinitus est numerus'. Recto. G201:1/43 | ||
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"Thou shalt soon perceive that all the world is mad, that it is melancholy, dotes; that it is (which Epichthonius Cosmopolites expressed not many years since in a map) made like a fool's head (with that motto, Caput helleboro dignum) a crazed head, cavea stultorum, a fool's paradise, or as Apollonius, a common prison of gulls, cheaters, flatterers, &c. and needs to be reformed.""--The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) by Robert Burton "Hic est mundi punctus et materia gloriae nostrae, hic sedes, hic honores gerimus, hic exercemus imperia, hic opes cupimus, hic tumultuatur humanum genus, hic instauramus bella, etiam civica." English: "For in the whole universe the Earth is nothing else and this is the substance of our glory, this is its habitation, here it is that we fill positions of power and covet wealth, and throw mankind into an uproar, and launch wars, even civil ones." --Natural History by Pliny the Elder |
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Fool's Cap World Map (c. 1590s) is an anonymous engraving depicting a world globe wearing a fool's cap.
The map is based on Abraham Ortelius's third 'Typus Orbis Terrarum,' which suggests a publication date after 1587.
Published by an unknown maker, it shows a fool's or jester's cap with a world map where the face would be. In this conceit, it is based on an earlier woodcut map by Jean de Gourmont found in Marolles, volume 201 page 108. The text in Gourmont's original has been latinized.
The text is in Latin : (panel on the left) 'Democritus Abderites deridebat, Heraclites Ephesius deflebat, Epichthonnis Cosmopolites deformabat' / 'Democritus of Abdera laughed at it' [the world], 'Heraclitus of Ephesus wept over it', 'Epichtonius Cosmopolites portrayed it';
(above the cap) 'Nosce te ipsum' / 'Know thyself' (from the Greek dictum 'gnothi seauton' reputedly inscribed on the temple of Apollo at Delphi);
(across the cap’s brow) 'O caput ellebore dignum' / 'O head, worthy of a dose of hellebore' (a poisonous plant).
On the cap's ears: 'Auriculas asini quis non habet' /'Who does not have donkey's ears?', a phrase ascribed to Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, a Roman stoic philosopher from the 1st century AD.
The Latin quote immediately above the map is from Pliny the Elder's 'Natural History' (bk. 2 ch. 72) 'Hic est mundi punctus et materia gloriae nostrae, hic sedes, hic honores gerimus, hic exercemus imperia, hic opes cupimus, hic tumultuatur humanum genus, hic instauramus bella, etiam civica.' / 'For in the whole universe the Earth is nothing else and this is the substance of our glory, this is its habitation, here it is that we fill positions of power and covet wealth, and throw mankind into an uproar, and launch wars, even civil ones.'
Below the map is the reason for this, taken from Ecclesiastes, 1.15: Stultorum infinitus est et numerus' / 'The number of fools is infinite' (7). Another quote from Ecclesiastes (1.2) is shown as engraved in the cup at the top of the jester's staff on the right: 'Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas' / 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity'.
The badges on the decorative belt crossing the figure's shoulder on the left read: 'O curas hominum, O quantum est in rebus inane' / 'Oh, the worries of the world; oh, how much triviality is there in the world', which is the opening of the 'Satires' of Aulus Persius Flaccus’ Satires; 'Stultus factus est omnis homo' / 'All men are without sense' (Jer. 10.14) and 'Universa vanitas omnis homo' / 'All things are vanity, by every man living' (Psalm 39.6).
There is an allusive reference to this map in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy (1621).
References
- Epistemologies of Play: Folly, Allegory, and Embodiment in Early Modern Literature by Katrina Lucia Spadaro
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