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THE JESUITS were the
principal disseminators of the symbolic
language that was developed in emblems and allegories
beginning in the sixteenth century. In their influential educational
system, the emblematic imagination was fundamental. The
practical orientation of their pedagogy and their desire for
intervention carried this creativity out to the plazas and
streets, with a persuasive intent in the majority of instances.
Their presence could be seen in both public and private spaces,
but, in a deeper and more subtle manner, it could be appreciated
in the mental habits of so many artists and writers who studied
under the Jesuits. A disseminating
nucleus of ideas and images was thus constituted, one that
played with the mystery inherent in the symbolic image, in order
to awaken attention and to achieve the maximum power of
conviction within the sphere of the Counter-Reformation.
The speculative side of many of their writers led to the
composition of some of the most important theoretical works on
emblems and imprese, to the compilation of encyclopedias, and to
the organization of erudition that helps us to understand how the
men of the period interpreted and constructed that symbolic
knowledge.
This CD by Studiolum includes
an ample selection of Jesuit works in the tradition delineated,
from well-known titles to others hardly noticed but no less
important. With few justifiable exceptions, we edit those works
that contain illustrations, leaving for a future edition the
unillustrated books.
In preparation. |
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Titles included:
• Antwerp (College S.J.), Typus mundi (1697)
• Bischoff, Engelbert, Genethlicon serenissimo neo-nato
Archiduci Austriae Leopoldo ... (Vienna 1701)
• Bivero, Pedro de, Sacrum sanctuarium crucis et patientiae
(Antwerp 1634)
• Bollandus, Joannes, Imago primi saeculi Societatis Jesu
(Antwerp 1640)
• Bosch, Jakob, Symbolographia
(Augsburg & Dillingen 1701)
• Bovio, Carlo, Ignatius insignium (Rome 1655)
• Brunner, Andreas, Excubiae tutelares principis Ferdinandi
Mariae (Munich 1637)
• Cologne (College S.J.), Annus Saecularis Societatis Iesu (Cologne
1618)
• Cuvelier, Michel, Scala salutis (Cologne 1650)
• David, Jan, Duodecim specula Deum (Antwerp 1610)
• David, Jan, Veridicus christianus (Antwerp 1601)
• Drexel, Jeremias, De Aeternitate considerationes (Munich
1620)
• Drexel, Jeremias, Heliotropium (Munich 1627)
• Drexel, Jeremias, Zodiacus christianus (Munich 1618)
with English translation (London 1647)
• Engelgrave, Henricus, Lux evangelica. (Antwerp 1648)
• Graz (College S.J.), Annus primus imperii Austriaci ... (Graz
1638)
• Hawkins, Henry, Partheneia sacra (Rouen 1633)
• Hugo, Herman, Pia desideria (Antwerp 1624)
with English translation (London 1686)
• Kreihing, Johannes, Emblematica ethico-politica (Antwerp
1661)
• La Rue, Charles de, Carminum libri quatuor (Paris 1680) &
Idyllia (Rouen 1669)
• Le Jay, Charles de, Le triomphe de la religion (Paris 1687)
• Le Moyne, P, L’art des devises (Paris 1666)
• Luzvic, Etienne, Le coeur devot (Paris 1626)
• Masen, Jakob, Dux viae ad vitam puram (Trier 1667)
• Menestrier, Claude-François, L’art des emblèmes (Lyon 1662)
• Menestrier, Claude-François, Philosophia imaginum (Paris
1682, French; Amsterdam & Danzig 1695, Latin)
• Nadal, Jerónimo, Evangelicae historiae imagines (Antwerp
1593)
• Poirters, Adrian, Het duyfken in de steen-rotse (Antwerp
1657); Het masker vande wereldt (Antwerp 1646)
• Querck, Ignatius, Acta S. Ignatii de Loyola (Vienna 1698)
• Reinzer, Franz, Meteorologia philosophica-politica
(Augsburg 1697)
• Sandt, Maximian van der, Aviarium Marianum ([Mainz] 1628)
• Schönberg, Mathias, Das Geschäft des Menschen (Munich 1775)
• Schwarz, Ignaz, Imperii princeps ecclesiasticus (Augsburg
1733)
• Senftleben, Johann, Philosophia moralis (Prague 1683)
• Smidt, Aegidius de, Sinne-beelden der deughden (Antwerp
1667)
• Stanyhurst, Wilhelm, Veteris hominis (Cologne 1702)
• Stengel, Georg, Ova paschalia (Munich 1634)
• Sucquet, Antoine, Via vitae aeternae (Antwerp 1620)
• Vanossi, Antoine, Idea sapientis theo-politici (Vienna
1725)
• Vienna (College S.J.), Apparatus emblematicus ... Borgiae (Vienna
1671)
• Vincart, Jean, Sacrarum heroidum epistolae anno saeculari
Societatis Jesu (Turnhout 1640)
• Zetl, P. Philosophia sacra (Dillingen 1715) |
