Book Title: Andreae Alciati emblematvm libellvs.

Author: Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550

Image Title: Safe from Cupid’s Dart

Description: The pictura of this emblem by the Italian jurist and writer Andrea Alciato (1492 – 1550 CE) features a wagtail, the sacred bird of Dionysus, with its wings fully extended and its entire figure encompassed by two rings intersecting at right angles. In the subscriptio, Alciato identifies this as the enchanted amulet that Aphrodite instructs the mythological hero Jason to make Medea fall in love with him and use her spells to help him in his mission to fetch the Golden Fleece, and Alciato instructs his readers to use such an amulet to ward off the wiles of lascivious women.

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