1648 EMBLEMATA by ANDREA ALCIATI illustrated w/ 209 engravings ANTIQUE vellum

Emblemata.
Cum facili & compendiosa explicatione, qua obscura illustrantur, dubiaque omnia soluuntur, per Claudium Minoem.

by Andrea Alciati

Antwerp, Moreti ; 1648.

392 pp. 4 leaves.

With 209 emblematic woodcuts.

A very rare edition of the famous emblem book, first published in Augsburg in 1531

Title page with early manuscript ownership entry, partly slightly browned, lacks front endpaper

Original vellum binding, slightly warped

Small format. Size: 3 by 4 3/4 inches

Text in Latin
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Andrea Alciato (1492 –1550), commonly known as Alciati (Andreas Alciatus), was an Italian jurist and writer. He is regarded as the founder of the French school of legal humanists.
Alciati was born in Alzate Brianza, near Milan, and settled in France in the early 16th century.
He displayed great literary skill in his exposition of the laws, and was one of the first to interpret the civil law by the history, languages and literature of antiquity, and to substitute original research for the servile interpretations of the glossators.
He published many legal works, and some annotations on Tacitus and accumulated a sylloge of Roman inscriptions from Milan and its territories, as part of his preparation for his history of Milan, written in 1504–05.

Among his several appointments, Alciati taught law at the University of Bourges between 1529 and 1535. It was Guillaume Budé who encouraged the call to Bourges at the time.
Pierre Bayle, in his General Dictionary (article "Alciat"), relates that he greatly increased his salary there, by the "stratagem" of arranging to get a job offer from the University of Bologna and using it as a negotiation point.

Alciati is most famous for his Emblemata, published in dozens of editions from 1531 onward.
This collection of short Latin verse texts and accompanying woodcuts created an entire European genre, the emblem book, which attained enormous popularity in continental Europe and Great Britain.

Alciati died at Pavia in 1550.
His heir, Francesco Alciati, commissioned a huge mausoleum in the Church of S. Epifanio.
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