. The book of fortune : two hundred unpublished drawings . few years ago, while looking over various manu-scripts preserved in the Library of the Institute,I chanced upon a book to which it was palpablethat but little attention had been paid, possiblybecause its exterior was certainly not was a quarto volume bound in brown calf andin very bad condition. Its title, Emblemata For-tumv, seemed to point to its being one of those tedious allegorical worksso much in vogue in the sixteenth century, the most celebrated of whichis that by Alciat. But on opening it I was agreeably surprise
. The book of fortune : two hundred unpublished drawings . few years ago, while looking over various manu-scripts preserved in the Library of the Institute,I chanced upon a book to which it was palpablethat but little attention had been paid, possiblybecause its exterior was certainly not was a quarto volume bound in brown calf andin very bad condition. Its title, Emblemata For-tumv, seemed to point to its being one of those tedious allegorical worksso much in vogue in the sixteenth century, the most celebrated of whichis that by Alciat. But on opening it I was agreeably surprised. Inaddition to the Latin which I was quite prepared to find, it con-tained two hundred drawings belonging unmistakeably to the FrenchSchool, and a mere glance over them sufficed to show that theypossessed a high artistic value. The MS. was quite ready for theprinter, as can be seen by the following title written on the first ,. The Emblemata Alciati, which was hrst published at Milan in i522, and ran through rtftyeditions, without counting the tr
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