Book Title: Andreae Alciati emblematvm libellvs.

Author: Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550

Image Title: On Human Life

Description: The pictura of this emblem by the Italian jurist and writer Andrea Alciati (1492 – 1550 CE) features the pre-Socratic philosophers Heraclitus, known as “the weeping philosopher,” and Democritus, known as “the laughing philosopher.” The subscriptio calls the former to despair over the great increase in humanity’s ills and the latter to cackle over the even greater farce that human life has become.

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