A new light on the renaissance displayed in contemporary emblems (1909)
Bayley, Harold · London, J.M. Dent · leaf 169
bject, this time characterising the hell-born monster as a “ Wolf ” — the wolf being a customary synonym for the tyranny of the Court of Rome — “ Accurst be thou Inveterate wolf ! whose gorge ingluts more prey Than every beast beside, yet is not fill’d So bottomless thy maw ! — Ye spheres of Heaven… … Coming Deliverer, is one of the insoluble problems of the Divina Commedia . The earliest commentators did not recognise any specific individual under this imagery, but supposed the prophecy to refer either to the second coming of Christ or to the advent of some heroic personage (preferably an…
Emblems · Cabala · Printers' marks · Renaissance
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