3.1210 images of love (57)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Sun, 25 Mar 90 18:00:14 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1210. Sunday, 25 Mar 1990.
(1) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 90 02:40:38 EST (10 lines)
From: "Patrick W. Conner" <U47C2@WVNVM>
Subject: 3.1206 imagines veneris (26)
(2) Date: 25 March 1990 10:15:13 CST (27 lines)
From: "M. R. Sperberg-McQueen " <U15440@UICVM>
Subject: images of love
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 90 02:40:38 EST
From: "Patrick W. Conner" <U47C2@WVNVM>
Subject: 3.1206 imagines veneris (26)
A database of Medieval drawings and illustrations from medical and
related texts is being developed, if I remember correctly. Whoever
asked about images of love in that context should probably contact
Mark Henry Infusino <IJA4MHI@UCLAMVS.BITNET>.
--Patrick Conner
--West Virginia University
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Date: 25 March 1990 10:15:13 CST
From: "M. R. Sperberg-McQueen " <U15440@UICVM>
Subject: images of love
Emblem books might provide some images of the type Massimo is
looking for. Albrecht Scho"ne and Arthur Henkel's vast catalogue,
Emblemata, has a number of indices, and perhaps one would find
an entry for love and/or sickness or related words.
I don't find anything very promising in the reprint on my shelf
of Alciatus' Emblematum Libellus of 1542, but Daniel Heinsius'
Emblemata Amatoria may offer something of interest. Most of
the pictures in it focus on Cupid involved in various activities,
but the 10th, captioned "In poenam vivo" shows a man strapped to
a bench being tortured by Cupid--maybe not sick, but at least
hurting. The edition I'm looking at is appended to Barbara
Becker-Cantarino's facsimile edition of Heinsius' Nederduytsche
Poemata (1616), (Bern/Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 1983) (vol.
31 in the series Nachdrucke deutscher Literatur des 17. Jahr-
hunderts). The images are rather small--they've been reduced,
but perhaps it would be possible to go back to the original
edition(s) if the images turn out to be of any interest for this
project--which sounds very intriguing; I look forward to hearing
more about it.
Marian Sperberg-McQueen
University of Illinois at Chicago