A new light on the renaissance displayed in contemporary emblems (1909)
Bayley, Harold · London, J.M. Dent · leaf 34
NEW LIGHT ON THE RENAISSANCE 22 constantly hereafter, was the first 1 work of an uninspired author that was issued from the printing press; evidence sufficiently striking of the high estimation in which it was held. Durandus is obviously a Latinised form of Durand, a name conspicuous in Albigensian… … mark Fig. 2 1 1 (p. 76). The Rationale is a typical example of the Albigensian method not only of interpreting scripture, but of fitting every material object, to the minutest detail, with spiritual meanings. All things, Durandus tells us, be full of divine significations and mysteries, and…
Emblems · Cabala · Printers' marks · Renaissance
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