Symbolica Aegyptiorum sapientials…
3,000 €
First edition of this “rare work on symbols” (Caillet). The first part contains in particular the Greek text and the Latin translation of the famous Hieroglyphica of Horapollo (4th-5th centuries) which have aroused curiosity for Egypt since their rediscovery in the 15th century. The second part has ambition to produce a hieroglyphic and iconological repertoire for teachers and students (see Spica). His work testifies to the ambitious educational program of the Jesuits in the field of symbol and rhetoric.
The author links the hieroglyph to the enigma and the emblem, as has frequently been the case since the Renaissance. Father Nicolas Caussin (Troyes, 1583-Paris, 1651), Jesuit, confessor to Louis XIII, then exiled after taking sides with Queen Mother Marie de Medici, returned to Paris after the death of the monarch and Cardinal Richelieu by the through Anne of Austria and was confessor to the Duke of Enghien. Marc Fumaroli sees in him one of the great “theoreticians of sacred sophistry” and one of the mediators of the Grand Siècle between the school and the Court.
