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Denis L. DRYSDALL

Denis L. DRYSDALL

Andrea Alciato, the Humanist and the Teacher

Notes on a Reading of his Early Works

Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance

CONTENTS Preface Chapter One: The Budding Humanist. In Bifum Chapter Two: History of Lombardy The “Antiquitates mediolanenses” Inscriptions and Symbolism Inscriptions in later works The Rerum patriae libri IV Chapter Three: Philology: the Method The Annotationes and the Opusculum (1515) The Praetermissa (1518) The Annotationes in Tacitum Chapter Four: Philology: the Method Applied The Dispunctiones (1518) The Paradoxa De eo quod interest Declamatio Chapter Five: The Teacher at Avignon De stipulationum divisionibus De verborum obligationibus, 1519 Chapter Six: Religion and Philosophy. Contra vitam monasticam Chapter Seven: Philology: a Theory of Language The Commentaria De verborum significatione libri quatuor Book 1 “Proprietas” “Proprietas” in law “Proprietas” and the “plebiscitum municipale” “Proprietas” and the avoidance of inequities Book 2 “Improprietas” “Usus” “Extensio” as a means of interpretation Book 3 Book 4 The dedication to Archbishop de Tournon Chapter Eight: The Teacher at Bourges Ad rescripta principum commentarii. “Letter to the Reader” Chapter Nine: Philology: “Obiter dicta”. Parergon iuris Chapter Ten: The Poet Emblemata “Philargyrus” Conclusions Works Cited Index

The attention given to Alciato in recent years has been concerned mostly with his “Emblemata”. This term, used originally as the title of a compilation of epigrams describing personal devices, became very soon the name of a new genre of poem and illustration widely used in architectural and artistic ornamentation. In his lifetime however Alciato was better known in Italy and France as a jurist and philologist who, equipped with an extraordinary knowledge of classical literature, questioned the interpretations of his predecessors, the commentators and glossators. At the same time he was famous as a teacher who attracted great numbers of students by the clarity and concision of his delivery. This book, which offers a view of his personnality, his method, and his place as a teacher of the law between mos italicus and mos gallicus, is based on a reading of works not always accessible to specialists of the emblems.

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Denis L. DRYSDALL (ed.), Jean Michel MASSING (ed.)

Hieroglyphs, Speaking Pictures, and the Law: The Context of Alciato's Emblems

Glasgow Emblem Studies

Acknowledgments Preface Andrea Alcialo: Pater et Princeps Andrea Alciato: In Bifum: the Budding Humanist The Emblems in Two Unnoticed Items of Alciato’s Correspondence SYMBOLISM Authorities for Symbolism in the Sixteenth Century The Hieroglyphs at Bologna Filippo Fasanini and his ‘Explanation of Sacred Leffers’ Devices as ‘Emblems’ before 1531 An Early Use of Devices: René Bertaut de la Grise, La Penitence damour Budé and Bocchi on Symbols The Emblem according to the Italian Impresa Theorists Gavino Sambigucio and his Interpretation of Achille Bocchi’s ‘Hermathena’ EDUCATION Self-Analysis al/d Self-Awareness: Alciato’s Advice to his Students Defence and Illustration of the German Language: Wolfgang Hunger’s Preface to Alciato’s Emblems Barthélemy Aneau: the Profitable and the Polemical Presence and Absence of Ramus in Mignault’s Emblematics and Poetics LAW Alciato and the Grammarians: the Law and the Humanities in the Parergoniuris libri duodecim A Lawyer’s Language Theory. Alciato’s De verborum significatione ‘The Good have Nothing to Fear from the Rich.’ Did Alciato really believe that? Hercules Prince of Bastards and Alciato on Illegitimacy APPENDIX Selected Occurrences of the Word Emblema in Printed Works before Alciato

Les toutes premières études d’emblèmes relevaient principalement du domaine des iconographes. Dans les années 1980, elles se concentrent plus particulièrement sur les emblèmes du théâtre imprimé du XVIIe siècle et montrent une tendance à se définir à l’aide d’un lexique propre à l’époque. Au cours de la même période, éclate un débat : que veut dire Alciate quand il utilise, de façon détournée, mal pensée et complètement hors de propos, ce terme pour le titre de son épigramme ? L’objectif principal de cette étude a été d’éviter l’anachronisme et de comprendre comment Alciate lui-même et ses contemporains concevaient l’emblème à la Renaissance.

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