Book Title: Andreae Alciati emblematvm libellvs.

Author: Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550

Image Title: About Those Who Dare to Go beyond Their Powers

Description: The pictura of this emblem by the Italian jurist and writer Andrea Alciato (1492 – 1550 CE) features in the background a troop of pygmies ambushing the Greek mythological hero Heracles as he sleeps under a pine-tree (background). When he awakens, he crushes them and carries them off, their mangled bodies caught in his lion-skin garment. The subscriptio interprets this scene as a lesson not to undertake that which lies beyond one’s powers.

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