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IF THERE IS ONE FASCINATING IDEA,
and a fecund one, it is the one inherited from the Middle Ages, that
sees the world and nature as a great book
opened by God before the eyes of men so that they can
interpret it and know its message. Time and again the authors of
emblems, imprese and moral literature in general remind us that
more can be learned from observing brute beasts than from
observing our fellow
men, in the same way that more is learned by listening to a
fable than by reading a theoretical treatise. Thus the utilization of
images and allusions to animals are charged with a dense
symbology that one must know how to interpret. The books that we
publish on this CD hold all the keys.
In these works we will find points of reference about the
characteristics and the behavior of animals, and the lessons that
can be learned from them. We will be able to see
the evolution of animalistic thought,
and to trace the transformations of any of their images, from
the venerable Classical treatises of Aristotle, Pliny or Aelian, passing through the medieval encyclopedia by Isidore of
Seville,
the Physiologus attributed to Saint Epiphanius and the progressive
Christianization of its contents carried out by Bochart, up
until the latest manifestations by authors of the Spanish
Counter-Reformation, such as the work by Ferrer de Valdecebro.
And, as in the other CDs by Studiolum,
we will be able to compare different editions with ease and
analyze the variants that appear in the different languages.
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Titles included:
Classical and medieval sources:
• Aelian, Historia animalium (Zurich editio princeps
by Conrad Gesner)
• Aesop, Fabulae (Lyon 1571, commentary
by Joachim Camerarius 1571, and illustrated)
• Aristotle, De animalibus (Basel 1548,
of the Opera
Omnia); Historia general de aves y animales (Valencia 1621)
• Albertus Magnus, De animalibus (Lyon 1621,
of the Opera
Omnia), (Frankfurt 1545, German, illustrated)
• Bartholomeus Anglicus, Encyclopedia,
Book XI on the animals (Toulouse 1494 Spanish by Fray Vicente de Burgos;
Augsburg 1505 Latin; London 1571 English, translation and annotation
by J. Batman)
• Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Book XII
on the animals (Madrid 1599
editio optima, with commentaries by various authors)
• Philes, Versus iambici de animalium
proprietate, cum auctario Joachimi Camerarii (Heidelberg 1596)
• Pliny, Naturalis historia,
Books VII-XI
on the animals (Paris
1685 ed. by Harduin; Frankfurt 1565, German, illustrtated; Madrid 1621,
Spanish by Jerónimo de Huerta)
• Plutarch, De sollertia animalium. (Basel 1571
Greek-Latin, tr. by Guilielmus Xylander; Salamanca 1571,
Spanish by de Diego Gracián; Paris 1612, French by Jacques Amyot;
London 1603 English by Philemon Holland)
• Solinus, Rerum memorabilium (Basel 1543,
Latin with commentary by P. Olivares; Seville 1573, Spanish by Cristóbal de
las Casas)
Renaissance and Baroque manuals:
• Aneau, Barthélemy, Description des animaulx (Lyon 1549)
• Bochart, Samuel, Hierozoicon sive bipartitum opus de
animalibus sacrae scripturae (London 1663)
• Camerarius, Joachim, jun. Symbolorum et emblematum
centuria. (Nuremberg 1590-1604)
• Cortés, Jerónimo, Libro y tratado de los animales
terrestres y volatiles. (Valencia 1615)
• Marcuello, Francesco, Primera parte de la historia natural
y moral de las aves (Madrid 1617)
• Nieremberg, J. E, Historia naturae, maxime peregrinae,
libri XVI (Antwerp 1635)
• Physiologus (Paris 1618, Greek-Latin with the commentaries of Nicolas
Caussin)
• Ramírez de Carrión, Maravillas de naturaleza (Córdoba 1629)
• Simson, Archibald, Hieroglyphica animalium (Edimburgo 1622)
• Ferrer de Valdecebro, Andrés, Gobierno general, moral y político, hallado en las fieras y animales sylvestres (Madrid 1658)
• Ferrer de Valdecebro, Andrés, Gobierno general, moral y político, hallado en las aves ... añadido con las aves monstruosas (Madrid 1683)
• Werdmiller, Otho, Similitudines ab omni animalium genere
desumptae (Zurich 1555) |
