"Beneath them kneeling on his knee, A superstitious man you see: He fasts, prays, on his idol fixt, Tormented hope and fear betwixt: For hell perhaps he takes more pain, Than thou dost heaven itself to gain. Alas poor soul, I pity thee, What stars incline thee so to be?"
Die Anatomy of Melancholy von Robert Burton gibt es online. Viel Text, zu allem überfluss auch noch englisch. Da muss ich wohl durch.
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Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon oder Wunderwerck oder Gottes unergründtliches vorbilden Diese Schrift ist sehr schön mit Holzschnitten bebildert. Latein kann ich leider nicht. Eine moderne Variante diese Rhinoceruses findet man bei Vladimir Gvozdariki
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Preface by Andrea Alciato on his book of emblems, to Konrad Peutinger of Augsburg
While boys are entertained by nuts and youths by dice, so playing-cards fill up the time of lazy men. In the festive season we hammer out these emblems, made by the distinguished hand of craftsmen. Just as one affixes trimmings to clothes and badges to hats, so it behooves every one of us to write in silent marks. Though the supreme emperor may give to you, for you to own, precious coins and finest objects of the ancients, I myself shall give, one poet to another, paper gifts: take these, Konrad, the token of my love.
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The Body Revealed: Renaissance and Baroque Anatomical Illustration
„Ich glaub, der Teufel ficht! Was ist denn das? Schon wird die Hand mir lahm.“
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How by a certain machine many may stay some time under water. And how and wherefore I do not describe my method of remaining under water and how long I can remain without eating. And I do not publish nor divulge these, by reason of the evil nature of men, who would use them for assassinations at the bottom of the sea by destroying ships, and sinking them, together with the men in them. Nevertheless I will impart others, which are not dangerous because the mouth of the tube through which you breathe is above the water, supported on air sacks or cork.