Un Serpent qui monte au haut d’une piramide
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Literature
Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web], p/no. 45/1
- Rollenhagen, Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum, bk/embl. I/45
- Rollenhagen, Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum, bk/embl. I/62
- Rollenhagen, Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum, bk/embl. II/23
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A snake is crawling upwards, on an obelisk- snakes (+ climbing animal(s)) [25F42(+5222)]
- pyramid (marking grave) [42E363]
- Strength, Power; 'Fortezza', 'Fortezza d'Animo e di corpo', 'Fortezza del corpo congiunta con la generosité dell'animo', 'Fortezza & valore del corpo congiunto con la prudenza & virtù del animo', 'Forza' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54A7(+4)]
- Virtuousness; 'Amor di Virtù', 'Attione virtuosa', 'Guida sicura de' veri honori', 'Virtù', 'Virtù insuperabile' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [57A6(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(IN VITAM VIRTUTI NULLA)]