Symbolorum: The Secret Wisdom of Emblems -- Mandy Aftel, Hardcover

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Symbolorum: The Secret Wisdom of Emblems -- Mandy Aftel, HardcoverAn excellent volume for bibliomancy The emblem book, which reached the peak of its popularity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, presented mysterious allegorical images rather like those we now find on tarot cards alongside Latin mottoes. A learned text explained the connection between image and motto, and the lessons each emblem held for the reader's life. Drawing on sources such as medieval bestiaries and Aesop's fables, emblem books

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