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Abbondanza, Roberto La vie et les oeuvres d'André Alciat Pedagogues et juristes. Congrès du Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance Tours, 1960, pp. 93-106

Academia Altorfina Emblemata anniversaria Academiae Altorfinae Nuremburg: Lochner, 1997

Adams, Alison The Translator's role in Sixteenth-Century editions of Alciati Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, LII, 2 (1990), pp. 369-383.

------------------& J. Harper (eds.) The Emblem in Renaissance and Baroque Europe. Tradition and Variety, Selected Papers of the Glasgow International Emblem Conference, 13-17 August, 1990, Leiden-New York-Cologne, E. J. Brill, 1990, Symbola et Emblemata. Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Symbolism 3

------------------(ed.),with Laurence Grove Emblems and Art History: Nine Essays, Glasgow, Glasgow Emblem Studies, 1, 1996

------------------The Emblemata of Théodore de Bèze (1580), in Karl A.E. Enenkel et Arnoud S.Q. Visser (eds.), Mundus Emblematicus. Studies on Neo-Latin Emblem Books, Brepols, Imago Figurata Studies, vol. 4, 2003

------------------Adams, Alison, Rawles, Stephen, Saunders, Alison, A Bibliography of French Emblem Books, Geneve, Droz, 1999/2000

Anton-Martinez, Beatriz La mitología en la literatura emblemática del Siglo de Oro: Los Emblemas Centum Regio-Politica de J. de Solórzano, in Estudios de Religión y Mito en Grecia y Roma. X Jornadas de Filología Clásica de Castilla y León, Universidad de León, Secretariado de Publicaciones de la Universidad de León, 1995, pp. 221-236

-----------------------------Los Emblemata Centum regio politica de J, de Solorzano, o los cien ojos de Argo, in Antonio Bernat and John T. Cull (eds.), Los dias del Alcion Emblemas, Literatura y Arte del Siglo de Oro, Barcelona, 2002, pp. 51-60

Alciato Emblemas Madrid: Editora Nacional, 1975

Angelini, Annasita Simboli e Questiani: L'Eterodossia Culturale di Achille Bocchi e dell'Hermathena Bologna: Pendragon, 2003

Anon Webs of Allusion: French Protestant Emblem Books of the Sixteenth Century Geneva: 2003

Bagley, Ayers L., Edward M. Griffin and Austin J. McLean (eds.), The Telling Image. Explorations in the Emblem, New York, AMS Press, AMS Studies in the Emblem, 12, 1996

Baier, Leslie K., ed. Reinventing the Emblem New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995

Catalogue for an exhibition curated by Allison B. Leader at Yale University Art Gallery.

Balavoine, Claudie Archéologie de l'embléme littéraire: La dédicace à Conrad Peutinger des Emblemata d'Andre Alciat in Emblémes et devises au temps de la Renaissance, ed. M.T. Jones-Davies, Paris, Touzot, Université de la Sorbonne, 1981, pp. 9-21

-----------------------Le statut de l'image dans les livres emblématiques en France, de 1580 a 1630 in Lafond & Stegmann,(eds.), L'Automne de la Renaissance, Paris, Université de la Sorbonne, 1981, pp. 163-178

-----------------------et alii, L'Embléme a la Renaissance, Actes de la Journée d'Etudes du 10 mai 1980, Paris, Société Française des Seiziémistes, 1982

-----------------------L'emblématisation de Mercure à la Renaissance dans Mercure à la Renaissance. Actes des journées d'etude des 4-5 Octobre 1984, Lille, Paris, Société française de seiziémistes, 1988

-----------------------Hiéroglyphiques de la mémoire : émergence et métamorphose d'une écriture hiéroglyphique dans les Arts de la mémoire du XVI et du XVII siècles XVI siècle, Hiéroglyphes, langages chiffrés, sens mystérieux, 40, 158, 1, 1988, pp. 51-67

-----------------------Les Emblèmes d'Alciat: sens et contresens in Yves Giraud (ed.), L'Emblème à la Renaissance. Actes de la journée d'études du 10 mai 1980, Société française des seiziémistes, 1982, pp. 49-59

-----------------------Le modèle hiéroglyphique à la Renaissance in Balavoine, Lafond, Laurens Le Modèle à la Renaissance, Paris, Vrin, 1986, pp. 209-225

-----------------------Le classement thématique des emblèmes d'Alciat: recherche en paternité in Adams and Harper (eds.), The Emblem in Renaissance and Baroque Europe. Brill, 1990, Symbola et Emblemata. Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Symbolism 3, pp. 1-21

-----------------------La manipulation des images symboliques à la Renaissance: Démocrite entre rire et folie in Sagrario López Poza (ed.), The Society for Emblem Studies Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of The Society for Emblem Studies, A Coruña, 2002, Ferrol, Sociedad de Cultura Valle Inclán, 2004, pp. 167-175.

Bath, Michael Honey and Gallor : Cupid and the Bees, a Case of Iconographic Slippage in Daly, Peter M. Andrea Alciati and the Emblem : Essays in honor of Virginia Woods Callahan, New York, 1989, pp. 59-94

-----------------------Speaking Pictures. English Emblem Books and Renaissance Culture, London: 1994.

-----------------------Emblems from Alciato in Jacobean Trencher Decorations, Emblematica, 8, 2 (Winter 1994), pp. 359-370

-----------------------Daniel Russell (eds), Deviceful Settings: The English Renaissance Emblem and its Contexts, New York: AMS Press, 1999

-----------------------& Pedro F. Campa and Daniel S. Russell (eds.), Emblem Studies in Honor of Peter M. Daly, Baden-Baden, Valentin Koerner Verlag (Saecula Spiritalia vol 41) 2002

------------------------Alciato and the Earl of Arran, Emblematica, 13, 2003, pp. 39-52

------------------------Emblems for a Queen, London: Archetype Publications, 2008

Bayley, Harold A New Light on the Renaissance Depicted in Contemporary Emblems London: Dent, 1909

Beaudoux, G. Alciat en Espagne: Mémoire pour le diplôme d'études supérieures. Paris: Institut d'études hispaniques, 1957

Benet, W.R., and W.A. Dwiggins Baker's Dozen of Emblems Mergenthaler Linotype Co., 1935

Bergal, Irene, Pierre Coustau's Pegme: From Emblem to Essay, Lapidary Inscriptions, Renaissance essays for Donald A. Stone Jr., ed Bowen and Nash, French Forum Monographs, 74, Lexington Kentucky, pp. 213-226

Bernat-Vistarini, Antonio, John T. Cull and Edward J. Vodoklys, Enciclopedia de los emblemas españoles ilustrados, fuentes clásicas y traducción de los moces por Edward J. Vodoklys, presentation by Peter M. Daly and Sagrario Lopez Poza, Madrid, Akal, 1999

------------------------and Lopez Poza (ed.), Florilegio de estudios de Emblematica, Actas del VI Congreso International de Emblematica, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of The Society for Emblem Studies. A Coruna, 2002, Ferrol, Sociedad de Cultura Valle Inclan, 2004

Bolzoni, Lina Emblemi e arte della memoria: alcune note su invenzione e ricezion. Sagrario López Poza (ed.), Florilegio de estudios Emblematica, Actas del VI Congreso International de Emblematica, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of The Society for Emblem Studies. A Coruna, 2002, Ferrol, Sociedad de Cultura Valle Inclan, 2004 pp 15-31

Bouzy, Christian Pegma o las imàgenes de la entrada en Amberes de Alberto e Isabel, archiduques de Austria (Joannes Bochius, Pompa Triumphialis et spectaculorum, Antwerpiae, ex officina Plantmiana, 1602) in Del libro de emblemas a la cuidad simbòlica, Actas del III Simposio Internacional de Emblematica Hispànica, Victor Minguez ed. Universitat Jaume I, 2000

Brecht/strong>, Bertholdt War Primer London: Libris, 1998

Bruno, Giordano Gli Eroici Furori Milan: Daelli, 1864

Burroughs, C. Hieroglyphs in the street: architectural emblematics and the idea of the facade in early sixteenth-century palace design in Peter M. Daly and H. Boker (eds.), The Emblem and Architecture; Studies in Applied Emblematics from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries, Turnhout: Brepois, 1999, pp. 134-162,

Caldwell, Dorigen, Studies in Sixteenth-Century Italian 'Imprese', Emblematica, 11 (2001), pp. 1-257

Callahan, Virginia Woods, The Erasmus-Alciati Friendship, Acta Conventus Neo-latini Lovaniensis, Miinchen, 1973, pp. 163-181

-------------------------The mirror of princes. Erasmian echoes in Alciati's Emblematxm liber, in Acta Conventus Neo-latini Amstelodamensis, Munchen, 1979, pp. 183-196

-------------------------Andrea Alciati of Milan, 8th May 1492-12th January 1550, in Contemporaries of Erasmus, Toronto, I, 1985, pp. 23-26

-------------------------The Erasmus-Hercules Equation in the Emblems of Alciati in The Verbal and the Visual: Essays in Honor of William Sebastian Heckscber, edited by Karl-Ludwig Selig and Elizabeth Sears, New York, Italica, 1990, pp. 41-57
--------------------------------Andrea Alciati's View of Erasmus : Prudent Cunctator and Bold Counselor, in Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Slanctaandreani, Binghampton, New York, 1986, pp. 203-210

--------------------------------Andrea Alciato and Boniface Amerbach: The Chronicle of a Renaissance friendship, in Acta Conventus Neo-latini Guelpberbytani, New York, 1989, pp. 193-200

--------------------------------Proto-Emblematica in Andrea Alciati's Oration in Praise of Civil Law (Avignon, 1520), Emblematica, 4, 1, pp. 3-13

--------------------------------An interpretation of Four of Alciato's Latin Emblems, Emblematica Summer 1991, 5, 3, pp. 255-260

--------------------------------Erasmus' Adages. A Pervasive Element in the Emblems of Alciato, Emblematica 9, 2 (1995), pp. 241-256

--------------------------------Alciato's Cypress Tree, in Peter Daly and Daniel S. Russell, eds., in Emblematic Perceptions: Essays in Honor of William S. Heckscher on the Occasion of his Ninetieth Birthday. Baden-Baden: Verlag Valentin Koerner, 1997, pp. 33-41

Campa, Pedro, The Space between Heraldry and the Emblem: the Case for Spain, in Emblem Scholarship: Directions and Developments. Peter Daly (ed.), Turnhout Brepols Publishers, 2005, pp. 51-82.

Campe, Rudiger, Questions of Emblematic Evidence: Phaeton's Disaster, with Reference to Pierre Legendre's Theory of Emblems, in New directions in Emblem studies, Glasgow Emblem Studies, vol. 4, edited by Amy Wygant, 1999, pp. 1-25

Charbonneau-Lassay, L. El Bestiario de Christo. El Simbolismo Animal en la Antigüedad y la Edad Media. 2 Volumes. Francesc Gutiérrez, trans. Barcelona, 1997

Chatelain, Jean-Marc Livres d'emblèmes et de devises. Une anthologie (1531-1735) Paris, Klincksieck, 1993

Choné, Paulette, Emblème et pensée symbolique en Lorraine (1525-1633), Paris: Klincksieck, 1991

---------------------Pierre Woeriot ou la pensée du simulacre in An Interregnum of the sign: The emblematic age in France, Essays in honour of Daniel Russell, ed. David Graham, pp. 171-202

---------------------(ed.), Le point de vue de l'emblème, Dijon, Université de Bourgogne &C. éditions Universitaires de Dijon, 2001

Clements, R. J. Picta poesis, Literary and Humanistic Theory in Renaissance Emblems Books, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1960

-------------------Emblem Books in Literature's Role in the Revival of Learning, Studies in Philology, LlV (1957), pp. 85-100

Cooper, Lane Aristotelian Papers Revised and... Ithica: Cornell University Press, 1939

Cooper, Richard Collectors of Coins and Numismatic Scholarship in Early Renaissance France in Medals and Coins from Budé to Momsen, M. H. Crawford, Chnstoph R. Ligota, Johnathan B. Trapp (eds.), London: Warburg Institute, 1990, pp. 5-24.

Cordero de Ciria, Enrique, Las Emblemas moralizadas de Hernando de Soto y su primera versión, inédita, en un manuscrito de la Biblioteca Nacional, B.M.I. Camón Aznar, LXV (1996), pp. 5-18

Covarrubias Orozco, Sebastián de Emblemes morales Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 1978

Cramer, Daniel Decades Quatuor Emblematum Sacrorum trans. Fiona Tait, Grand Rapids: Phanes Press, 1991)

--------------------Rosicrucian Emblems Phanes Press, 1991

Cummings, Robert, Alciato's Emblem 41: Unum nihil, duos plurimum posse, Emblematica, 10, 2 (1996), pp. 399-413

------------------------Alciato's Emblemata as an Imaginary Museum, Emblematica, vol. 10, 2 (1996), pp. 245-281

Daly, Peter Mac, Trends and Problems in the Study of Emblematic Literature, M, 5 (1972), pp. 53-68

--------------------Woods, Callahan Virginia and Simon Cutler (eds.), Andreas Alciatus The Latin Emblems Indexes and Lists, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985

--------------------Directions in Emblem Studies: Past and Present, Emblematica 2 (1986), pp. 159-174.

--------------------The Union Catalogue of Emblem Books Project and the Corpus Librorum Emblematum Emblematica, 3 (1988), pp. 121-133

--------------------Alciato's Emblem 'Concordiae Symbolum': A Medusa's Mirror for Rulers? GLL, 41 (1988), pp. 349-362

--------------------(ed.), Andrea Alciato and the Emblem Tradition: Essays in Honour of Virginia Woods Callahan, New York, 1993

--------------------Alciato's 'Spes proxima' Emblem: General allegory or local specificity? Emblematica, 9, 2 (1995), pp. 257-267

--------------------Sixteenth-Century Emblems and Imprese as Indicators of Cultural Change in John Whitman (ed.), Allegory and Cultural Change, Leiden: Brill, 2000, pp. 381-418

--------------------and H. Böker (eds.), The Emblem and Architecture: Studies in Applied Emblematics from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries, Turnhout: Brepols, 1999

--------------------Marc Van Vaeck and John Manning (eds.) Emblems from Alciato to the Tattoo. Selected Papers of the Leuven International Emblem Conference, 18-23 August, 1996, Turnhout: Brepols, 2000

--------------------The Pelican-in-her-Piety Emblem Scholarship: Directions and Developments, Peter Daly (ed.), Turnhout: Brepols, 2005, pp. 83-108

--------------------Literature in the Light of the Emblem: Structural Parallels between the Emblem and Literature in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1979

--------------------Emblem Theory: Recent German Contributions to the Characterization of the Emblem Genre Nendeln/Liechtenstein: KTO Press, 1979

--------------------ed. Tibor Fabiny Shakespeare and the Emblem Szeged: Attila Jozsef University Press, 1984

--------------------, Callahan, V.W., and Cutter, S., ed.Andreas Alciatus: Vol. I The Latin Emblems Indexes and Limits Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985

--------------------ed. Leslie T. Duer, Anthony Raspa, et al. Index Emblematicus: The English Emblem Tradition Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1988

--------------------Andrea Alciato and the Emblem Tradition New York: 1989

--------------------& Manning, J. Aspects of Renaissance  and Baroque Symbol Theory 1500-1700 New York: 1999

--------------------Companion to Emblem Studies New York: AMS Press, 2008

Diehl, Huston An Index of Icons in English Emblem Books 1500-1700 Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986

Dimler, Richard G., S.J. The Emblematum Liber of Andreas Alciato and Jakob Masen's Theory of the Imago Figurata Archivum Historicum Societatis Jesu, LXVII, 1998, pp. 293-304

----------------------The Jesuit Emblem: Bibliography of Secondary Literature New York: 2005

Drysdall, Denis L., Préhistoire de I'emblème: commentaires et emplois du terme avant Alciat Nouvelle Revue du Seizième siècle 6, 1988, pp. 29-44

-----------------------Defence and Illustration of the german language: Wolfgang Hunger's Preface to Alciati's Emblems Emblematica, Spring 1988, 3, 1, pp. 155-188

-----------------------Budé on symbolè, symbolon, text and translation Emblematica, 8, 2, Winter 1994, pp. 339-349

-----------------------Self-Analysis and Self-Awareness for students: Alciato's application of an Emblem Emblematica, 9, 2, Winter 1995, pp. 393-400

-----------------------A Lawyer's language theory: Alciato's De verborum significations Emblematica, 9, 2, Winter 1995, pp. 269-292

-----------------------The Emblems in two unnoticed items of Alciato's correspondence Emblematica, Spring 1997, 1, pp. 379-391

-----------------------Classifying Alciato's emblems: Is there an alternative to Aneau? In Harms and Peil (eds.), Polyvalenz und Multifunktionalität der Emblematik, Akten der 5. Internattonalem Kongresses des Society for Emblem Studies (Munich, 9-14 août 1999), Peter Lang, 2002, pp. 125-132

Freeman, Kathleen Companion to the PreSocratic Philos... Oxford: Blackwells, 1959

Freeman, Rosemary English Emblem Books London: Octagon, 1978

Gomes, Luís, ed. Mosaics of Meaning Studies in Portuguese Emblematics Glasgow: Glasgow Emblem Studies, 2009

Gonzàles de Zàrate, Jesús María, Los Hieroglyphics de Horapolo, Lecturas de Historia del Arte Ephialte, I (1989) pp. 243-256

Goody, Jack The Culture of Flowers Cambridge: 1933

Gracian, Balthazar Agudeza Arte de Ingenio Madrid: Espasa Calpe Colleccion, 1957

Graham, David Heroes, Maidens, Monsters: Dynamics of Male-Female Relationships in Sixteenth-Century French Emblem Books, Emblematica. 10, 1 (Summer 1996), pp. 15-40

------------------------(ed.) An Interregnum of the Sign: The Emblematic Age in France: Essays in Honour of Daniel S. Russell, Glasgow, Glasgow Emblem Studies, vol. 6, 2001

Grand-Carteret, John, ed. Le Centre de l'Amour Polissonneries du Bon Vieux Temps Paris: Albin Michel, 1905

Green, Henry Whitney's Choice of Emblems London: Lovell, 1866

------------------------Andrea Alciati and His Books of Emblems: A Biographical and Bibliographical Study, London, Trubner, 1872. Reprinted New York, B. Franklin, 1976

Another edition London: Trubner, 1872.

------------------------The Four Fountains of Alciati London: The Holbein Society, 1870

------------------------Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers London: Trubner & Co., 1870

Guillaume, Jean, Hic Terminus haeret: du Terme d'Erasme à la devise de Claude Gouffier, la fortune d'un emblème pendant la Renaissance Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1981, pp. 186-192.

Harms, Wolfgang et Peil, Dietmar (eds.) with Michael Waltenberger Polyvalenz und Multifunktionalität der Emblematik. Akten des 5. Internationalen Kongresses der Society for Emblem Studies/Multivalence and Multifunctionality of the Emblem/Proceeding, of the itb International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 2002, 2 vols.

Hayaert, Valérie Mens Emblematica et Humanisme Juridique Geneva: Droz, 2008

Heckscher, W.S. Pearls from a Dungheap: Andrea Alciati's 'Offensive' Emblem, Adversus naturam peccantes in Art. The Ape of Nature, Studies in honor of H. W.Janson, Barasch and Sandier New York: Harry N Abrams, 1981, pp. 291-311

Henkel, A. & Schöne A. eds. Emblemata Stuttgart: 1967

Another ed., J.B. Metzler, 1996.

Hill, Elizabeth What is an Emblem? Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 29 (1990): 261-65

Hind, Arthur M. History of the Woodcut, an Introduction Houghton Mifflin, 1935

Höltgen, Karl Josef, The Ruler between Columns: Imperial Aspirations and Political Iconography from the Emperor Charles V to William of Orange in Michael Bath, Pedro F. Campa y Daniel S. Russell (eds.), Emblem Studies in Honour of Peter M. Daly, Baden-Baden: Verlag Valentin Koerner, 2002, pp. 143-168

----------------------Aspects of the Emblem Kassel: Reichenberger, 1986

Infantes, Víctor La primera traducción de Alciato en España : Hernando de Villa Real y su Emblema o scriptura de la justicia (1546) in Zafra, Rafael y José Javier Azanza (eds.), Emblemata aurea. La Emblemática en el Arte y la Literatura del Siglo de Oro, pp. 235-250.

Isselburg, Peter Emblamata politica Nuremburg: Carl Hans, 1980

Jenkinson, Megan Under the Aegis, the Virtues Ohio: Fortuna Press, 1997

Junius, Hadrianus Emblemata Antwerp: Plantin-Moreti, 1969

Klein, Robert, La Théorie de L'expression Figurée dans ies Traités Italiens sur les Imprese, 1555-1612 BHR, 19 (1957), pp. 320-342

Köhlher, Johannes Alciato's Shadow: Aurelio Albucio Emblematica 9, 2 (1995), pp. 343-368.

Koncený, Lubomir Emblematics, Agriculture, and Mythography in The Origin of the Milky Way by Jacopo Tintoretto Wolfgang Harms and Dietmar Peil (eds.),
Polyvalenz..., pp. 255-268

Landwehr, John German Emblem Books Utrecht: Haentjens Dekker & Gumber, 1972

---------------------------Romanic Emblem Books Utrecht: Dekker and Gumbert, 1976

---------------------------Emblem and Fable Books Printed in ... Utrecht: H&S, 1988

Laurens, Pierre L'Abeille dans l'Ambre, célébration de l'épigramme de l'époque alexandrine à la fin de la Renaissance Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1989

-et Vuilleumier Florence Entre Histoire et Emblème: le recueil des Inscriptions milanaises d'André Alciat Revue des études latines 72 (1984), pp. 218-237

Laurens, F.V. La Raison des Figures Symboliques à la Renaissance et à L'Âge Classique Geneva: Droz, 2000

Leader, Alison B. Reinventing the Emblem. Contemporary Artists Recreate a Renaissance Idea. An Exhibition curated by Alison B. Leader New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1995

Leslie, Michael The Dialogue Between Bodies and Souls Word & Image 1 (1985): 16-30

Lottes, Wolfgang Henry Hawkins and Partheneia Sacra Review of English Studies n.s. 26 (1975): 144-52, 271-86

Lucie-Smith, Edward Borrowed Emblems London: Turret, 1967

Manning, John The Emblem London: Reaktion, 2002

Mansueto, Donato, ed. The Italian Emblem: A Collection of Essays (in collaboration with Elena Laura Calgogero) Glasgow: Glasgow Emblem Studies, 2007

Margolin, Jean-Claude Devises: armes parlantes et Rébus au temps des grands Rhétoriqueurs in Emblémes et devises au temps de la Renaissance, ed M. T. Jones-Davies. Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1981, pp. 65- 80

----------------------------Alciato, A champion of humanism in the eyes of Erasmus Emblematica, 9,2 Winter 1995. pp. 369-370.

Massing, Jean-Michel, Du texte à l'image, La Calomnie d'Apelle et son iconographie, Presses univershaires de Strasbourg, 1990

---------------------------Erasmian Wit and Proverbial Wisdom: An Illustrated Moral Compendium for François I London: The Warburg Institute, 1995

---------------------------Proverbes en Rimes and Dictz moraulx pour faire tapisserie. New Material on Some Old Topics Emblematica, 11 (2001), pp. 451-464.

---------------------------Casting Flowers to Swine. From the Proverbial to the Emblematic Pig in Wolfgang Harms et Dietmar Peil (eds.), Polyvalenz..., pp. 657-677

---------------------------Washing the Ethiopian, once more in Sagrario López Poza (ed.), Florilegio de estudios de Emblemática..., pp. 509-520

Mathieu-Castellani, Gisele Le défi de l'emblème Revue de Littérature Comparée LXIV, n° 4 (1990), pp. 597-603

---------------------------------Le retour de l'emblème Littérature, 78 (1990), pp. 3-21

Miedema, Hessel The Term Emblema in Alciati Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1968 (31), pp. 234-250.

Millet, Olivier Les emblèmes de la Justice Bulletin de la Sociètè des Amis de Montaigne La Justice 21-22, 2001, pp. 39-52

Minguez, Victor La emblemática hispanoamericana Ínsula. Ver la poesía: la imagen gráfica del verso, 603-604 (Marzo-Abril 1997), pp. 9-10

--------------------Emblemática y cultura simbólica en la Valencia barroca, Valencia, ed. Alfons El Magnánim -IVEI, 1997

--------------------(ed.) Del libro de emblemas a la ciudad simbólica. Actas del III Simposio International de Emblematica Hispánica, Universidad Jaume I, Castellon, 2000

Montagu, Jennifer An Index of Emblems of the Italian Academies Based on Michele Maylender's Storie Delle Accademie D'Italia Yarmouth: The Warburg Institute, 1988

Moss, Ann Emblems into Commonplaces: The Anthologies of Josephus Langius in Karl A.E. Enenkel and Arnoud S.Q. Visser (eds.), Mundus Emblematicus Studies on Neo-Latin Emblem Books, Brepols, Imago Figurata Studies, vol. 4, 2003.

Pastoureau, Michel Aux origines de l'emblème: la crise de l'héraldique européenne aux XVe et XVIe siècles in Emblémes et devises au temps de la Renaissance, ed M. T. Jones-Davies, Paris, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1981, pp. 129-139

Peil, Dietmar Tradition and Error. On Mistakes and Variants: Problems in the Reception of Emblems in Emblem Scholarship: Directions and Developments. Peter Daly (ed.), Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2005

Illustrated by John Leighton, F.S.A.

------------------------The Life of Man London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dryer, 1866

Illustrated by John Leighton, F.S.A.

-----------------------Liste der Emblembücher in Münchener Bibliotheken Munich: 2005

Porteman, Karel The Dutch Emblem: An Introduction Emblematica, 8, 2 Winter 1994, pp. 20

---------------------The Emblem as 'Genus Jocosum': Theory and Praxis (Jacob Cats and Roemer Visscher) Emblematica, Winter 1994, pp. 243-260.

Praz, Mario Studi sul Concettismo Milan: 1934

-----------------------Studies in 17th Century Imagery Rome: Edizioni de Storia e Letteratura, 1964

Rawles, Stephen An Unrecorded Edition of Jean Lefevre's Translation of Alciato, with New Translations of Emblems from the 'Venice' Collection Emblematica 9, 1 (1995), pp. 209-216

---------------------Layout, Typography and Chronology in Chrétien Wechel's editions of Alciato in David Graham (ed.), An Interregnum of the Sign. The Emblematic Age in France: Essays in Honour of Daniel S. Russell, Glasgow, Glasgow Emblem Studies, vol. 6, 2001

Renard, J. Catalogue des Oeuvres Imprimées de Claude-François Menestrier Lyons: N.P., 1883

Rolet, Anne Musique des sphères, musique de l'âme. Une utilisation allégorique de Pan et son contexte philosophique dans les Symbolicae Quaestiones d'Achille Bocchi in Wolfgang Harms et Dietmar Peil (eds.), Polyvalenz und Multifunktionalität der Emblematik, Akten des 5. Internationalern Kongresses des Society for Emblem Studies(Munich, 9-14 août 1999), eds. Wolfgang Harms/Dietmar Peil, Peter Lang, 2002, pp547-579

---------------------Achille Bocchi's Symbolicae Questiones in Karl A.E. Enenkel and Arnoud S O Visser (eds.), Miindus Emblematicus..., 4, pp. 101-130

---------------------De l'usage détourné d'une suite hiéroglyphique empruntée a l'Hypnerotomachia Poliphili de F. Colonna: philosophie et conversion religieuse in Symbolon n° 147 des Symbolicae Questiones d'Achille Bocchi, (1555) dans Actes du Colloque Suite, Série, Séquence Université de Poitiers et Collège International de Philosophie(Poitiers, 12-14 mars 1998}, La Licorne, 47, 1998, pp. 221-255

---------------------Les Symbolicae Questiones d'Achille Bocchi (IV 5), recherche sur les modèles littéraires philosophiques et spirtuels d'un recueil d'emblèmes à I'époque de la Réforme édition, traduction et étude d'ensemble, Université de Tours, 1998

---------------------Aristote, Cicéron et la Genèse: une lecture emblématique de la quinta natura au XVI' siècle in Aristote an bras long, Littérature, July 2001, pp. 95-115

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