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One of the most famous books of mystical emblems.
The woodblock illustration includes an engraved frontispiece title, coat of arms of Pope Urban VIII to whom the work is dedicated, and 46 charming full-page woodcut figures.
Fully tuned copy. The text is embellished with curious tailpieces in niello or calligraphy.
This is one of the rare woodblock books from the "baroque" period. A true bookstore "best seller", which went through more than forty editions between 1624 (EO Antwerp) and 1843 and was translated into all the languages of Europe. It exerted a considerable influence on the different forms of spirituality in the 17th and 18th centuries (particularly on the quietism of Madame de Guyon, who wrote a commentary on it). Chateaulain 84; Landwehr, Low Countries, 239.
Herman Hugo, in Latin Hermannus Hugo, born May 9, 1588 in Brussels and died September 12, 1629 in Rheinberg, (Rhineland-Westphalia, Germany) was a Jesuit priest from the southern Netherlands, Latin poet-writer and military chaplain of the troops Spanish Imperials.
His masterpiece came off the press in Antwerp in 1624: Pia desideria. Emblematis elegiis et affectibus SS. Patrum illustrata. His Pia desideria are written in Latin verse and comprise three books. (Book I) Gemitus animae poenitentis. (Book II): Vota animae sanctae. (book III): Suspiria animae amantis. They are long paraphrases in elegiac verse of various passages of Holy Scripture and of the Fathers of the Church written with a poetic pen. This work, whose subject is the soul in search of holiness, is one of the most popular of the emblematic literature of the Baroque period.
Author: Herman Hugo / Christoffel van Sichem
Title: Pia desideria emblematis elegiis & affectibus ss. patrum illustrata
Publisher: Aertssenius, Antverpiae et 1628 In-18 (12.6x9), 12 ff; n.ch. 456 pp + 1 f Complete.
Binding of the 19th century, hardcover with bradel in half percaline with corners, smooth spine, piece and gilt irons. Golden slices.
Very good general condition. Binding strong and clean. Fresh and clean interior. Fully tuned copy. Several discreet corrections or old handwritten notes in pen.
Subject: Emblemata Hermann Hugo Pia desideria 46 wood Christoffel van Sichem 1628 Mysticism Bible 67493843
