Emblematica Lusitana e os Emblemas.Vasco Mousinho de Castelbranco. Emblematica Lusitana e os Emblemas. Rubem Amaral, Jr., ed. Lisbon: Centro de Historia da Universidade de Lisboa, 2005. 154 pp. index. illus. bibl. n.p. ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 972-99298-6-6. Portuguese emblems appeared later and in smaller numbers than in other European countries and have received little attention even from emblem scholars. Amaral's work aims to remedy this situation. Although the commentary is in Portuguese, there are abstracts in English, French, and Spanish. He begins with a general definition of the emblem and recounts its history in Portugal. Although he correctly distinguishes emblem from device, he does give accounts, rather lengthily for this context, of the latter's use for such purposes as architecture and festival banners and even finds emblematic em·blem·at·ic or em·blem·at·i·cal adj. Of, relating to, or serving as an emblem; symbolic. [French emblématique, from Medieval Latin embl elements in Portuguese printers' marks. Although these accounts are basically lists, with pictures that are not always clear, they are potentially useful to the study of both emblematic and non-emblematic visual imagery. Amaral presents Quevedo's works as they were originally published, in two groups, one in Discurso sobre a Vida e Morte de Santa Isabel Santa Isabel: see Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. Santa Isabel or Ysabel Island, central Solomon Islands, western South Pacific Ocean. , Rainha de Portugal, e outras varias rimas and the other a manuscript entitled Dialogos de Varia var·i·a n. A miscellany, especially of literary works. [Latin, from neuter pl. of varius, various.] Doutrina. Although he called his poems "emblemas," he did not, probably for financial reasons, include pictures. Amaral has provided these, appropriating images from Alciati, Paradin, and others that Quevedo almost certainly knew. This clothing of a "naked emblem" can be a tricky, highly conjectural con·jec·tur·al adj. 1. Based on or involving conjecture. See Synonyms at supposed. 2. Tending to conjecture. con·jec , endeavor. We'll never know what sort of pictures Quevedo would have used or whether he had actually ever seen those that Amaral appends to his verses. Nevertheless, these pairings are convincing and the volume is an enlightening, if specialized, view of some little-known material. Although of interest mainly to students of emblems and of Portuguese literature Portuguese literature, writings in Portuguese. The literature of Brazil is considered separately (see Brazilian literature). Early Works Literature in the Portuguese language first emerged in lyric poetry, the courtly love poems collected in , this volume also has merits for the general reader. ELIZABETH K. HILL St. John's University (Emerita e·mer·i·ta adj. Retired but retaining an honorary title corresponding to that held immediately before retirement. Used of a woman: a professor emerita. n. pl. ) |
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