Deux Viperes ayans la tête l’un dans l’autre
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Literature
Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web], p/no. 45/6
- Junius, Emblemata [web], embl. 38
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A female viper is biting off the head of a male one- snakes: viper (+ male animal) [25F42(VIPER)(+22)]
- snakes: viper (+ female animal) [25F42(VIPER)(+23)]
- snakes: viper (+ animals mating) [25F42(VIPER)(+432)]
- snakes: viper (+ dying animal; death of animal; dead animal) [25F42(VIPER)(+63)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
- Good and Bad Behaviour, Moral Qualities (+ emblematical representation of concept) [57AA7(+4):31D15]
- Mortality, Extinction of Life (+ emblematical representation of concept) [58BB1(+4)]
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