In nocte consilium: studies in emblematics in honor of Pedro F. Campa

Contents

Preface / by John T. Cull and Peter M. Daly -- Hispanic emblems and literature. Emblems in the palace plays of Calderón (the symbolic bestiary) / Ignacio Arellano -- An emblematic reading of a regal epistolary exchange: Philip IV's letters to Sister Maria De Ágreda, in the light of Saavedra Fajardo / José Azanza López -- Latin authors in the Emblemas morales of Juan de Horozco / Christian Bouzy -- Venus in Taurus: epic and emblematic astrology in Lope de Vega's Las almenas de Toro / Frederick A. de Armas -- The heart of the king in Baltasar Gracián / Aurora Egido -- The whore of Babylon: tradition and iconography of an apocalyptic motif in the service of modern religious polemics / José Julio García Arranz -- Clarifiactions and new data on the works of Juan de Horozco y Covarrubias / Rafael Zafra -- Bibliography and emblem theory. How many printed emblem books were there? And how many printed emblems does that represent? / Peter M. Daly -- The emblem theory and practice of Bohuslav Balbín, S.J. / Lubomír Konecný -- Multiple glances at the Mundus symbolicus by Filippo Picinelli: a bibliographical approach / Bárbara Skinfill Nogal -- Emblems, emblematic images, and numismatics. Sixteenth-century Romayne heads: engravings by Virgil Solis copied on four panels in the Victoria and Albert Museum / Michael E. Bath -- Veritas filia Dei: the iconography of truth between two cultural horizons in the Ithica hieropoloitica / Antonio Bernat Vistarinia and Tamás Sajó -- Pilgrimage with the Redeemer in the womb: St. Francis de Sale's 1610 meditation on the biblical mystery of the visitation / Joseph F. Chorpenning -- Imagery for a new country: the posters of the Oui-side in the 1995 Quebec Referendum campaign / Bernard Deschamps -- Aspects of the fig tree and its fruit in emblematics / Rafael García Mahíques -- The urban emblems of Daniel Meisner : the image of the city as a treasury of knowledge (1700) / Victor Minguez and Inmaculada Rodriguez -- The fervent heart: Isabella de Spiritu Sancto's Herzbücher (Books of the heart) / Sabine Mödersheim -- Kenny Meadows and the emblematic designs for Shakespeare's Cymbeline in Robert Tyas's "Shakspere for the people" Project (1839-43) / Alan R. Young -- List of illustrations -- A bibliography of the publications of Pedro F. Campa.