Smyth, CarolynYawn, LilaRobohn, Melissa Ann2024-10-232024-10-232021Robohn, Melissa Ann. "An analysis of the 1546 Venetian edition of Andrea Alciato’s Emblematum Libellus". Master's Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2021.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/574Master of Arts in Art History -- John Cabot University, Spring 2021.The subject for this thesis is an analysis of the 1546 Venetian edition of Andrea Alciato’s Emblematum Libellus. The Emblematum Libellus is an early example of a popular genre of published materials known as emblem books. Andrea Alciato (1492-1550), an Italian jurist and humanist working in Northern Italy and France, is widely considered the father of this genre as it was his set of epigrams, printed with accompanying illustrations, that were first published in 1531. About forty editions of his emblem books were published during the author’s lifetime but this specific edition is interesting for several reasons. First, the emblems in this edition are new; the previous twenty-seven editions or printings were all based on a different set of epigrams, the now lost 1521 or 1522 set. Second, it is the only confirmed edition published in Italy during this Italian author’s lifetime. There are references to a possible Milan edition from 1521 or 1522, but no copy has ever been found nor evidence for its production. After this 1546 edition, Alciato’s emblem books were not printed in Italy again until a posthumous edition was published in Padua in 1621. The third reason is the collection of circumstances around its publication and source. The how and why behind this publication by Paolo Manuzio and how the publisher obtained the material is still quite mysterious. After this one Italian printing, Alciato resumed working almost exclusively with French printers until his death. By analyzing the evidence in extant copies of the 1546 edition of the Emblematum Libellus and other editions of Alciato’s emblems published shortly before and after the 1546 Venetian edition, this work will be placed in the context of the author’s biography, the publisher’s biography, and the development of the new set of illustrated emblems. Close analysis of the image portion of the emblems in this volume as well as a brief analysis of the epigrams themselves provide additional evidence about the development of this work.125 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Latin emblem booksThesis