Book Title: Andreae Alciati emblematvm libellvs.

Author: Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550

Image Title: Love Is a Most Powerful Emotion

Description: The pictura of this emblem by the Italian jurist and writer Andrea Alciato (1492 – 1550 CE) features Cupid, the Roman god of love, blindly but deftly leading a chariot pulled by a pair of lions. In the subscriptio, Alciato extols the god’s mastery and claims that one who is able to best such a beast cannot be expected to refrain from bringing humans under his sway as well.

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