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THE ORIGINAL BOOK by
Andrea Alciato enjoyed more than 150 editions in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, and established itself as
one of the few works influential
throughout Europe, in countries both of the Reformation
and of the Counter-Reformation. It gave rise to an abundant series of
annotations and commentaries in which each of the scholiasts put
his erudition to the test.
With the inclusion of all important editions, from the editio princeps
(Augsburg 1531) until the last important one, which appeared in
the eighteenth century (Madrid 1749), we have here the history of this
little jewel. With this CD we can see with great exactitude the
life of each one of the emblems and each family of engravings,
their recastings, additions and suppressions:
• all editions that add new emblems to the collection, or
appear with a new ordering of the engravings;
• the first edition of each translation (three French, two
German, two Italian and one Spanish);
• all editions with commentary: Aneau 1549, Stockhamer
1556, Sánchez de las Brozas 1573, Mignault 1571 and 1584, Diego
López 1615 and 1655, Pignoria 1618, Capaccio 1620 and Thuilius
1621;
• our annotation with the comparison of textual variants,
the determination of sources (linked always to other CDs by Studiolum)
and the critical comparison with 30 other editions of the
Emblematum liber
• finally, we complete the CD with Geoffrey Whitney’s
work, Choice of Emblemes (1586) – for all intents and
purposes the first edition of Alciato in English – and Henry
Green’s monographical study (1872) on the life of Alciato, with
his bibliography of 179 editions of the Emblemata.
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Titles included:
Editions of the Emblemata:
• Augsburg: Steyner, 1531, the two printings of February and
April
• Paris: Wechel, 1534 and 1542
• Paris: Wechel, 1536, Latin-French
• Paris: Wechel, 1542, Latin-German
• Venice: Aldus, 1546
• Lyon: De Tournes, 1547 y 1554-56, with the commentaries of S.
Stockhamer
• Lyon: Roville-Bonhomme, 1548
• Lyon: Roville-Bonhomme, 1549, Spanish
• Lyon: Roville-Bonhomme, 1549, French, with the commentaries
of B.
Aneau
• Lyon: Roville-Bonhomme, 1549, Italian
• Lyon: Roville-Bonhomme, 1550
• Paris: Ruelle, 1562
• Antwerp: Plantin, 1565
• Frankfurt: Feyerabend 1567, Latin-German
• Antwerp: Plantin, 1571, with the commentaries of C. Mignault
• Lyon: Roville, 1573, with the commentaries of Sánchez de las
Brozas
• Antwerp: Plantin, 1577 and 1591
• Antwerp: Plantin, 1584, French
• Antwerp: Plantin, 1589, with the augmented commentaries of Mignault
• Nájera: Mongastón, 1615, with the commentaries of Diego López
(and the
editio optima of Valencia: Villagrassa, 1655)
• Padua: Tozzi, 1618, with the commentaries of L. Pignoria
• Padua: Tozzi, 1621, with the “monstre commentaries” of Thuilius
• Padua: Tozzi, 1626, Latin-Italian
• Madrid: Mercedarian Order, 1749
Other titles:
• Alciato, Andrea, Epigrammata selecta, Milan 1522
• Epigrammata Graeca, edition with commentary, Geneva 1566 (Stephanus)
and Frankfurt 1600 (Brodaeus): the epigrams paraphrased by Alciato
• Whitney, Geoffrey, A Choice of Emblemes, Leiden: Plantin 1586
• Capaccio, Giulio Cesare, Il principe ... tratto dagli Emblemi di
Alciato, Venice: Barezzi 1620
• Green, Henry, Andrea Alciati, London 1872 |
