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Achille Bocchi and the emblem book as symbolic form
- Title
- Achille Bocchi and the emblem book as symbolic form / Elizabeth See Watson.
- Author
- Watson, Elizabeth See.
- Publication
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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- Description
- x, 299 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- Achille Bocchi and the Emblem Book as Symbolic Form examines the life and work (the Symbolicae Quaestiones) of one of the sixteenth century's greatest intellectuals. Esteemed by his contemporaries, Achille Bocchi was a renowned poet, teacher of rhetoric, local historian, publisher, and founder of a literary academy in Bologna. Part I of this study establishes the life of and intellectual context for Bocchi, who is here presented as a participant in the debates at the academy and university and as an individual whose views were shaped by the syncretic philosophical currents of his time. No evidence supports the widely held view that Bocchi concealed heretical leanings in his writings.
- Part II explores poetic theory and the role of the symbol in the development of Bocchi's symbola and also examines the rhetorical strategies of paradox and the symbolism of mythology as they shape the content of his work. The iconography of the emblematic units of poem, engraving, and motto in the Symbolicae Quaestiones and the related facade design for Bocchi's palazzo are revealed to be a programmatic statement of Bocchi's interrelated project, all of which were informed by the intellectual and cultural themes of his day.
- Subject
- Bocchi, Achille, 1488-1562
- Bocchi, Achille, 1488-1562 > Criticism and interpretation
- Bocchi, Achille, (1488-1562) > Critique et interprétation
- Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere (Bocchi, Achille)
- Emblems > Italy > Early works to 1800
- Symbolism in art
- Symbolism in art > Italy
- Emblems
- Emblemata
- Emblems > Early works to 1800
- Signes et symboles > Dans l'art
- Emblèmes > Dans la littérature
- Symbolisme (ésotérisme) > Dans l'art
- Livres d'emblèmes
- Emblèmes > Italie > 17e siècle
- Italy
- Genre/Form
- v – Theses.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Early works.
- Note
- Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Johns Hopkins University.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- pt. 1. Achille Bocchi: A Life in Its Context. 1. The Early Years. 2. The Quiet Years: Bocchi's Religion and Philosophy. 3. The Scholar's Utopia: Bocchi's Projected Vision -- pt. 2. The Generic Mix and Bocchi's Symbol Construction. 4. Poetics and the Emblem. 5. Bocchi and the Symbol. 6. Emblematic Paradox and Serious Play. 7. The Mythographic Union of Eloquence and Wisdom -- Appendix: Membership in Academies Associated With Bocchi.
- ISBN
- 0521400570
- 9780521400572
- LCCN
- 92020390
- OCLC
- ocm26132253
- 26132253
- SCSB-2009197
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library