Book Title: Andreae Alciati emblematvm libellvs.

Author: Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550

Image Title: Poverty Brings down the Best Minds, Hindering Their Progress

Description: The pictura of this emblem by the Italian jurist and writer Andrea Alciato (1492 – 1550 CE) features a child reaching toward a heavenly figure, his left hand winged, his right weighed down a great rock. The subscriptio interprets this scene to be representative of the impediments that poverty presents to the potential of great minds.

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