Book Title: Andreae Alciati emblematvm libellvs.

Author: Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550

Image Title: The Power of Love

Description: The pictura of this emblem by the Italian jurist and writer Andrea Alciati (1492 – 1550 CE) features Cupid sitting on a boulder with a bouquet of flowers in his right hand and a fish in his left. The subscriptio treats of this scene as representative of love’s gentleness and its sovereignty on land and sea.

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