Book Title: Andreae Alciati emblematvm libellvs.

Author: Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550

Image Title: Anteros, the Love of Virtue, Defeats the Other Cupid

Description: The pictura of this emblem by the Italian jurist and writer Andrea Alciati (1492 – 1550 CE) features the goddess Nemesis binding Hermes, the god of love, to a pillar in order to use the arrows of Hermes, the god of love, against him. The subscription treats of this as illustrative of the ironic suffering caused by erotic love.

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