| Antonius a Burgundia, Linguae Vitia Et Remedia (Antwerp, 1631) Contributor(s): Van Houdt, T. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 2503507743 ISBN-13: 9782503507743 Publisher: Brepols Publishers OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 1999 Annotation: This first modern reprint of Antonius a Burgundia's neat and concise emblem book Lingua vitae et remedia is based on the copy in the Royal Library Albert I at Brussels. The book focusses on one extremely important issue: the vices of the tongue-abuse, equivocation, insults, detraction, blasphemy, lying, perjury and calumny. It was issued almost simultaneously in Latin and Dutch with the vices of speech, the second offers remedies for such defects. In a wide-ranging introduction Van Houdt discusses the cultural and literary context of the book and the issues it raises, setting it in the intellectual framework which shaped its pedagogical principles and ethical ideas. The catalogue of sins and remediescan be traced back to theological and humanistic sources, among which Erasmus'diatribe Lingua holds a special place.The appendix includes collated variants, an index of Latin mottoes with an English translation, a list of pictorial motifs, and an index of themes. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Baroque & Rococo - Literary Criticism | European - General |
| Dewey: 100 |
| Series: Imago Figurata. Editions |
| Physical Information: 166 pages |