Présentation de l'éditeur
Library of the I nstitute, I chanced upon a book to which it was palpable that but little attention had been paid, possibly because its exterior was certainly not attractive. It was a quarto volume bound in brown calf and in very bad condition. I ts title, Emblemata Fortumv, seemed to point to its being one of those tedious allegorical works so much in vogue in the sixteenth century, the most celebrated of which is that by A lciat .B ut on opening it I was agreeably surprised. In addition to the Latin te.xt which I was quite prepared to find, it contained two hundred drawings belonging unmistakeably to the French School, and a mere glance over them sufficed to show that they possessed a high artistic value. The MS. was quite ready for the printer, as can be seen by the following title written on the first ,. The Emblemata A lciati, which was hrst published at Milan in i522, and ran through rtfty editions, without counting the translations of it in prose and verse.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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Présentation de l'éditeur
This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.
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