Allegory of eloquence Title page for: N. de La Touche, L'art de bien parler françois, 1720, Allegorical representation with poetry in the middle in a dress embroidered with letters, a cornucopia in the hand, as a reference to the fruitful ideas she expresses. She receives flowers from Mercury (eloquence), Apollo (poetry) and Faith and Wisdom. In the foreground putti who learn to speak and read. In the margin a six-line caption in French, Eloquence, 'Eloquenza', 'Fermezza & Gravitell'Oratione '(Ripa) (symbolic representation of concept), Hermes Logios, Mercury as god of eloquence, symbolic repr

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