Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD) was regarded by sixteenth century Europe as one of the
most contested religious and philosophical authorities. He was cast as a characteristically …

The emblem is one of the most remarkable literary inventions of Renaissance humanism.
The symbolic imagery presented in these Neo-Latin emblem books constituted an important …

Historic furniture has a great ethnographic and historical value, as styles and designs responded
to specific uses, fashion trends and the social status of the buyer or the commissioner. …

The thirteen articles in this volume deal with the Neo-Latin emblem book after the birth of the
genre with Andrea Alciato’s Emblematum libellus (1531). While the interest in emblematics …

In the period of the Reformation, patristic knowledge became one of the most contested
fields of erudition. Newly emerging theological problems prompted a quest for authoritative …

In this article the first portrait book of physicians and philosophers, Joannes Sambucus'
Veterum aliquot ac recentium medicorum philosophorumque Icones [...] (Antwerp: Christopher …

In his emblem ‘Avaritia huius saeculi’(The greed of this time [170]), Sambucus does not seem
very content with the cultural climate of his time (fig. 15). In an echo of Martial he vents his …

When Sambucus completed his preface, in January 1564, he had not yet seen the final result
of the woodcutters’ activity. 1 His introduction was written before the epigrams were typeset …

In trying to recapture the historical figure Joannes Sambucus (János Zsámboky), the modern
historian is confronted with a by no means unequivocal relationship between an author and …

The fact that Sambucus presented himself as a poeta doctus and a respectable man of
letters, rouses certain expectations with regard to his actual poetry. In this chapter, the subject-…