Author: SCHOONHOVEN, F.
Title: Emblemata Florentii Schoonhovii I.C.Goudani. Partim moralia, partim etiam civilia.
Description: Gouda, Andreas Burier, 1618. 4to. (19x14, 4 cm). [xii], 251 pp. With engraved title-page, portrait of Schoonhovius with laudatory quatrain by Gerard Traudenius; and 74 half-page emblems in the text by Crispijn de Passe the Younger (?). Later (18th century?) half-roan. (small tear in the gutter of first two leaves; bottom part waterstained throughout, mostly unobstrusive; small bookmark on upper pastedown; a few stains in the text; spine chafed) - Good copy of the first edition. ¶ Florentius Schoonhovius (1593-1648), was a lawyer and poet. In his dedicatory preface to the magistrates of this home town of Gouda he praises their moderation. In protest of the intolerance of the Dutch calvinist religion, he converted to Catholicism later in life. His emblems and comments accentuate the importance of tolerance and humanism. Laudatory poem by Gerard Traudenius, rector of the Latin School in Gouda. Landwehr, Emblem and Fable Books, 727. The attributon of the emblems to Crispijn de Passe the Younger is now questioned.

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