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Andrea Alciato

Italian lawyer and humanist

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introduction of emblem book

  • pages from Francis Quarles's Emblemes
    In emblem book

    …16th-century Italian lawyer and humanist Andrea Alciato, whose Emblemata was first printed in Augsburg in 1531. It was written in Latin and later appeared in translation and in more than 150 editions. The Plantin press specialized in emblem literature, publishing at Antwerp in 1564 the Emblemata of the Hungarian physician…

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