Joannes Sambucus and the Learned Image
The Use of the Emblem in Late-Renaissance Humanism
Biographical note
Arnoud S.Q. Visser, Ph.D. (2003), Leiden University, is a Leverhulme Fellow in the School of Classics, University of St Andrews. He has published on Renaissance emblems and edited, together with Karl Enenkel, Mundus Emblematicus. Studies in Neo-Latin Emblem Books (2003).
Readership
All those interested in Renaissance poetry and the reception of the classics, the relationship between word and image, humanism and the Republic of Letters, as well as book-historians and classicists.
Reviews
This is an important and challenging book ... Visser pleads his case so well that we are left with few uncertainties. This is a new voice from whom we shall hear much more. His scholarship is founded on close textual analysis from which refreshing ideas and polemics derive. His highly personal rhetoric, impressive wealth of information, and exciting and detailed analyses, all recommend this book and encourage us to further explorations.
Cristina Neagu in Renaissance Quarterly, Volume 59, Number 1, Spring 2006
Visser's book is a comprehensive study of Sambucus's emblems that places the Hungarian humanist in the effervescent circles of the Catholic-Reformation in Vienna and the publishing world of the Low Countries. ... This study of Joannes Sambucus is much more than a specialized monograph for emblem specialists; it is an important work about sixteenth-century humanism that might foster an interest and open the way for future studies about other Central and Eastern European figures of the Republic of Letters.
Pedro F. Campa in Sixteenth Century Journal, XLII/1 (2011)
The study of Joannes Sambucus’ Emblemata is a successful attempt to bring us closer to a once fashionable cultural artefact and to explain how it functioned in the social and cultural milieu of late Renaissance humanism. ... Visser is wellprepared for the task which he sets himself: he has a superior knowledge of Latin and classical Latinity, of Renaissance humanism, and of cultural history. ... This excellent monograph on Sambucus demonstrates that such an enterprise is well worth the effort. Visser does not just place an important book in its historical context and elucidate its functioning at the time, but also increases our general understanding of this curious form of art.
Gábor Almási in Journal of Early Moden History, Volume 10, Number 3, 2006
Visser’s sensitivity to the plurality of theory and practice within the highly various genre of the emblem presents a noteworthy contribution to the scholarship of the field, and it makes good his claim that ‘both as an expression of Humanist mentality and as an instrument of the scholar in a social context, the emblem can help to chart the cultural history of the early modern Republic of Letters’
Jane Partner in Modern Language Review
A major contribution to our understanding of Renaissance humanism.
Alison Adams in The American Historical Review, Vol. 111, No. 2 (April 2006)
Cristina Neagu in Renaissance Quarterly, Volume 59, Number 1, Spring 2006
Visser's book is a comprehensive study of Sambucus's emblems that places the Hungarian humanist in the effervescent circles of the Catholic-Reformation in Vienna and the publishing world of the Low Countries. ... This study of Joannes Sambucus is much more than a specialized monograph for emblem specialists; it is an important work about sixteenth-century humanism that might foster an interest and open the way for future studies about other Central and Eastern European figures of the Republic of Letters.
Pedro F. Campa in Sixteenth Century Journal, XLII/1 (2011)
The study of Joannes Sambucus’ Emblemata is a successful attempt to bring us closer to a once fashionable cultural artefact and to explain how it functioned in the social and cultural milieu of late Renaissance humanism. ... Visser is wellprepared for the task which he sets himself: he has a superior knowledge of Latin and classical Latinity, of Renaissance humanism, and of cultural history. ... This excellent monograph on Sambucus demonstrates that such an enterprise is well worth the effort. Visser does not just place an important book in its historical context and elucidate its functioning at the time, but also increases our general understanding of this curious form of art.
Gábor Almási in Journal of Early Moden History, Volume 10, Number 3, 2006
Visser’s sensitivity to the plurality of theory and practice within the highly various genre of the emblem presents a noteworthy contribution to the scholarship of the field, and it makes good his claim that ‘both as an expression of Humanist mentality and as an instrument of the scholar in a social context, the emblem can help to chart the cultural history of the early modern Republic of Letters’
Jane Partner in Modern Language Review
A major contribution to our understanding of Renaissance humanism.
Alison Adams in The American Historical Review, Vol. 111, No. 2 (April 2006)
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The World of the Author
2. The World of the Publisher
3. Sambucus About the Emblem
4. The Use of Dedications
5. The Epigrams: Subject-Matter, Structure and Style
6. The Uses of Classical Sources
7. Word and Image in Pictura and Epigram
Conclusion
Appendix I. Concordance to the Emblems
Appendix II. List of Dedicatees
Appendix III. Relations Between Epigram and Pictura
Select Bibliography
General Index
Index of Emblems
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The World of the Author
2. The World of the Publisher
3. Sambucus About the Emblem
4. The Use of Dedications
5. The Epigrams: Subject-Matter, Structure and Style
6. The Uses of Classical Sources
7. Word and Image in Pictura and Epigram
Conclusion
Appendix I. Concordance to the Emblems
Appendix II. List of Dedicatees
Appendix III. Relations Between Epigram and Pictura
Select Bibliography
General Index
Index of Emblems
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