A new light on the renaissance displayed in contemporary emblems (1909)
Bayley, Harold · London, J.M. Dent · leaf 73
ROMAUNT EMBLEMS 61 me,” says Gavaudin, “for selecting a cloudy style of writing, or at least, let them reserve their censure until they are capable of sifting the wheat that lies therein from the chaff.” Figs. 145 and 146 are representations of the mystic Lady who was so persistently besought to… … She- Wolf, and to crush the Pontifical serpent. The in- terpretation placed upon this symbol seems to have varied considerably in detail, but very little in essence. Dante, the Herald of the Renaissance, and, according to Aroux, a great fountain of Heresy and a leader of the Albigensian Church,…
Emblems · Cabala · Printers' marks · Renaissance
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