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    Andrea Alciato (8 May 1492 – 12 January 1550), commonly known as Alciati (Andreas Alciatus), was an Italian jurist and writer. He is regarded as the founder...
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    authorized by Alciato: published in Paris by Christian Wechel, this appeared under the title Andreae Alciati Emblematum Libellus ("Andrea Alciato's Little Book...
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  • Bulgarian singer Andrea Aguyar (died 1849), Uruguayan slave turned soldier and revolutionary Andrea Alciato (1492–1550), Italian jurist Andrea Aleksi (1425–1505)...
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  • Perseus Digital Library Lucian, Dial. Meret. 7; comp. Xenoph. Sympos. Andrea Alciato, Emblemata / Les emblemes (1584). Walker, Henry J., Theseus and Athens...
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  • Adagia). Thus a promising beginning is followed by a bad ending or, as Andrea Alciato phrased it in the Latin poem accompanying the drawing in his Emblemata...
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    This is understandable, given that first emblem book, the Emblemata of Andrea Alciato, was first issued in an unauthorized edition in which the woodcuts were...
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    Pausanias remarks. The image was taken up again after the Renaissance: see Andrea Alciato, Emblemata / Les emblemes (1584). Cyrino 2010, p. 39. Cyrino 2010, pp...
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    Andrea Alciato in his Emblemata (1534) and the Neo-Latin poet Gabriele Faerno in his collection of a hundred fables (Fabulum Centum, 1563). Alciato only...
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  • author (d. 1556) April 24 – Duchess Sabina of Bavaria (d. 1564) May 8 – Andrea Alciato, Italian jurist and writer (d. 1550) June 4 – Hirate Masahide, Japanese...
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  • ("half-woolly sow") an ancient emblem of the city, fancifully accounted for in Andrea Alciato's Emblemata (1584), beneath a woodcut of the first raising of the city...
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