A new light on the renaissance displayed in contemporary emblems (1909)
Bayley, Harold · London, J.M. Dent · leaf 62
50 NEW LIGHT ON THE RENAISSANCE earnest of the glorious world to come.” In Fig. 125, which is classed by Mons. Briquet among other examples of watermarked crowns, will be observed the phrase Manet Ultima Ccelo (“ It is awaiting me in the highest Heaven ”). … Figs. 126 and 127 are swans. The swan “ is a perfect embleme and pattern to us that our death ought to be cheerful and life not so deare unto us as it is.” Socrates declared that good men ought to imitate swans, who, perceiving by a secret instinct what gain there was in death, die singing with…
Emblems · Cabala · Printers' marks · Renaissance
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