Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-religious Prose, 1550-1600 |
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... whence probably was derived the designation “ coxcomb " for a foolish , vain fellow.27 In the ludi , also , appeared heraldic devices with their conventional animal symbolism.28 The Circe myth was used in the pageants and masques of ...
... whence probably was derived the designation “ coxcomb " for a foolish , vain fellow.27 In the ludi , also , appeared heraldic devices with their conventional animal symbolism.28 The Circe myth was used in the pageants and masques of ...
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... apparently were interested in emblems even before the year 1509 , when English translations of Brandt's great em blem book , the Narren Schyff , appeared , and had composed a few pieces resembling somewhat the work of Alciat .
... apparently were interested in emblems even before the year 1509 , when English translations of Brandt's great em blem book , the Narren Schyff , appeared , and had composed a few pieces resembling somewhat the work of Alciat .
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26 Between 1509 , the date of publication of Barclay's Ship of Fools , and 1598 , when Willet's A Century of Sacred Emblems appeared , the chief emblem books available in English were Claude Paradin's Devises Héroïques ( 1557 ) 27 and ...
26 Between 1509 , the date of publication of Barclay's Ship of Fools , and 1598 , when Willet's A Century of Sacred Emblems appeared , the chief emblem books available in English were Claude Paradin's Devises Héroïques ( 1557 ) 27 and ...
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