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A01764	The vvorthy tract of Paulus Iouius, contayning a discourse of rare inuentions, both militarie and amorous called imprese VVhereunto is added a preface contayning the arte of composing them, with many other notable deuises. By Samuell Daniell late student in Oxenforde.; Dialogo dell' impresse militari et amorose. English	Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552.; Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619.	1585 (1585)	STC 11900; ESTC S103128	65,159	144

taking the aduauntage of the time after the Battell ceasing to pursue the French men halfe conquered in which case he neuer offended for it was all forged by the Earle Gaiazzo to pleasure the French men and in dispight of the Duke Lodouico for Gaiazzo desired not to see the Venetian Lordes Conquerers to the ende that if the French men had bene ouercome they had not so victoriously haue gone to occupie the state of Millan of them-desired euer since the time of Duke Phillip and his father Amongst all the famous Captaines the Lorde Giouan Giacopo Triuultio was of soueraine wit and in great reputation who from the beginning as an Enemie to the Duke Lodouico Sforza seeing him seeke the vsurping of the Dukedome which was the right of his Nephewe he ioyned with the King of Aragona open Enemie to Lodouico for the same cause And to signifie that in the gouernment of his Countrey he was not to yeeld one iote to him he bare for his Impresa a quadret of Marble with a stile of Iron plāted in the middest opposite to the Sunne which was the an̄cient Ensigne of his house with this mot Nō cedit vmbra soli Although the Sunne turne about neuer so often the stile alwaies yeeldeth his shadowe Alphonso Duke of Ferara a Captaine of resolute Prowesse and admirable constancie when he went to the Batell of Rauenna did beare a Globe or round boule of mettle full within of artificiall fire which powred forth flames by certaine creueis and it was so cunningly contriued that at due time and place the fire would issue forth making great confusion of those which were within the daunger thereof The inuention wanted a Posie which was afterwardes added by the famous Aristo and it was Loco tempore and then trāslated into French to giue it a better shew after this maner A lieu é temps Valiaunt did he shewe himself in this bloodie battell placing his Artillarie in such sorte that he slewe much people After that by the death of Pope Leo the Duke of Vrbin had recouered his estate being reconciled with the Baglioni and in frendship with the Cardinall of Medicis who at that time gouerned the state of Florence was ordained generall for that common wealth And on a time Master Thomas Maufrede his Embassadour requested mee to deuise some Impresa for his Standard whereupon I caused to be figured a Palme hauing the top therof weighed downe with the heauie poize of a great Marble tied thereunto to signifie that which Plinie saith of the saide tree being of this nature that it returneth to the former fashion be it depressed with neuer so greate a waight mounting it vp in time and drawing it on high adding therunto this mot Inclinataresurgit alluding to the vertue of the Duke which neuer had beene oppressed though sometimes by the fury of Fortune for a time abased This inuention pleased him well and he ordained that it should be set on his Standard albeit vpō certaine occurrents he came not to take the office of Generall Dom. I am glad that you are begun to recite some Imprese which you your selfe haue deuised whereof I haue seene diuers in the Chamber where you studie Iou. In trueth I haue made many in my time but I shame to recount thē all sith there are some which haue those defects which are peculiare to humaine actions For as I said at the beginning the framing of an Impresa is the aduenture of a readie and phantasticall braine and it is not in our power although with long studie to forge an inuention fitting the humour of him which shall weare it or aduaūcing the credite of him which composeth it for therein he aduētureth his fame being accompted learned And in effect it is one thing to saie well in shewing a conceite and an other thing to expresse the same with a soule and bodie that it may bee altogether currāt without any error For I my self which haue made so many for others desirous greatly but yet in vaine to finde the body of a subiect to this mot Fato prudentia minor wherein I fare like the Shoemaker who fitteth with newe and nete shoes euery other mans foote and is faine himself to weare his owne broken and patched for neuer could I finde out subiect of any thing which satisfie me But first before I shew you those of mine owne composing in respect of modestie I wil recite some of other men Dom. I pray you haue regard that you vtter no more which shal seeme maymed or vnperfect Iou. I shall now recount those which shall be perfectly good sith heretofore wee haue bene shewed such as haue bene ridiculous and to prosecute our purpose I say that the Impresa of S. Ottauiano Fregoso at the warres of Bolona Modena was accounted ingenious but very extrauigant considering the picture for he wore a great many Ciphers Sables in a field Or in the borders of the vtter part of the Bards of his horses Which Charecters of them selues in the art of numbring signifie nothing but hauing a figure of number set before them they make a multitude almost infinite as for example placing but an vnite before the said Ciphers they signifie a Million Millions Aboue the border was written this Hoc per se nihil est sed si minimū addideres maximum fiet Signifying that with a little ayde he should recouer the State of Genoua which whilom was in the possession of Signior Pietro his father who there was slaine this Signior Ottauiano at that time banished little at all ayded by the Duke of Vrbin but yet of sufficient hope to bee restored to his house as afterward he was by Pope Leo. Trueth it is that the Posie is to to long but yet the nature of the wittie subiect doth beare it singular wel Signior Hierosin Adorno who tooke Genoua by the force and strēgth of the Cesarians and chased from thence the foresaid Signior Fregoso for that he making himself of Fraunce gaue ouer the gouernmēt of the Dukedome reseruing but only that title of Gouernour This Adorno was a youth of singulare hope and adorned with great vertnes but enuious death too sone cut of his desired life he as it is the slipperie nature of that fraile age was ardently inamoured of a Ladie decked with notable beautie and adorned with rare chastity on a time he requested me to inuēt an Impresa to this tenor how that he thought and verely beleeued that the obtayning of her fauour would be the attayning of his felicitie contrarywise the losing of the same the bereauing of his life in yeelding to him a desired death to ende the tedious trauailes which he had sustained either in the pursutes of loue or practises of warre which I hearing there came to my remembraunce that which Iutius Obsequeus wrighteth in his Booke da prodigijs The lightning to bee of this nature that comming after greate trauailes and disgraces it will make an

ripe direction of iudgement But why doe I rather aunswere the capcious then satisfie the graue and modest who at the first vewe I dare presume vpon their wisedome will subscribe to the supremacie of the wit of your newe Science For if Courtiers are inwardly rauished in vewing the Picture of Fiametta which Boccacc limned If Ladies entertaine Bandel or Ariosto in their Closets If Louers imbrace their Phisition Ouid in extremitie of their passion then will Gentlemen of all tribes much rather honor your Impresa as a most rare Iewell and delicate Enchiridion For there is not published a florish vpon fancie or Tarletons toyes or the sillie Enterlude of Diogenes You prosesse not Artem iocandi or Potādi You discourse not of Apuleius Asse You trifle not as Cornelius the Brabantine who published an Encomion of Tuftmockados But you present vs an order to frame Deuises in shew glorious in forme plain in title straūge the which is so much the more to bee esteemed being deriued frō the most pure springs Lucas Contile and Rusoelli whom I cannot name without some Preface to their commōdation What should I recount Dominicus and Alciat with whom you seeme to haue beene very familiarly acquainted which addeth much credite to your woorke and notably hath giuen light to your studies But concerning the arte of Imprese I neede not draw the petigree of it sith it is knowne that it descended from the auncient Algiptians and Chaldcans in the Schoole of Memphis who deuised meanes before Charecters were founde out to vtter their conceiptes by formes of Beastes Starres Hearbes as you haue declared and these notes were called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 .i. sacrae notae This Philosophie was increased by Orus Niliacus and Pythagoras was more plainely reuealed by Clcmeus Pausanias Atheneus in this last age reuiued by Pierius Valerian But to what end serued this to shadow suerly their purposes and intents by figures So counsayled Plaeto So practised the first parents of Philosophie As by the picture of a Stork they signified 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By a Serpent pollicie By an Oliue peace By a Gote lust drawing these Charecters frō the world as from a volume wherein was written the wonders of nature Thus was the first foundations layd of Imprese From hence were deriued by succession of pregnant wittes Stemmata Coates of Armes Insignia Ensignes and the olde Images which the Romaines vsed as witnesses of their Auncestors Emblemes and Deuises Then what was the intēt of these Ensignes and Deuises What cause can bee pretended for them What did they import Iamblicus saieth that they were conceiptes by an externall forme representing an inward purpose So Fergusus the first Scottishe King did beare in his Standard a Lion geules to bewray his courage testifie his stomacke and dismaie his aduersarie which being well marshalled is borne for the atchiuement of the Kinges euer since So did the Athenians beare their Owle the Thebans their Sphinx the Switzers their Beare But among all inuentions surpasse for witt art your Imprese neither lesse renowmed then the Insegnes nor lesse heroicall then the Armes called by Paradin Symbola Heroica by Simeon deuises illustra Minoes a man otherwise excellently qualified in all humanitie semeth neither perfectly to define Impreses nor artificially to distinguishe them from Emblemes The sole worde Symbolum euery way is to large and generall a terme for them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that note by which we know or cā cōiecture any thing is Symbolum Now in this scope and generallitie how is it restrayned how doth he measure and fit that word for Imprese Sumitur hic Symbolum pro argumento seu nota qua quod piam occultatur sed doctis auribus intelligēdum proponit ur There is great ods my good freend betwixt this adumbration and your substantial definition If we respect the forme it is lame and why so because there is no proper difference to supporte it And this is an infallible grounde for seeing it comprehendeth all the former Standards Liurees Armes it is rather an vniuersall note then a speciall Idea if we regarde the circumstaunces it is very superficiall if the final ende confused Now to come to the difference of Emblemes and Impreses what subtilitie doth he shewe in it Symbolum est genus Emblema species This motion is to vniuersall rather tending to deuide the genus then to define the species but the difference must bee borowed from the properties and because this is a case worthie to be demurred let vs consult more curiously with our artistes let vs conferre with our professor what distinction maketh Iouius I must excuse him as Traian did a certain Poet Plus est in arte quam in artifice For as Minoes iudgeth of him Artem hanc incheauit potius quam persicit But in deed these two conceipts are allied by so greate affinitie their intents and pictures so vniforme and cōsonant that without sharpe insight wee cannot discypher their difference Emblema is deriued of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 interponere inserere quicquid interseritur ornatus gratia whether the inuention bee embrodered in garmentes grauen in stone enchased in golde wrought in Arras and in my opinion there is great imparitie betweene them both in body and soule They are disseuered by sondrie Cognisances established by reason and confirmed by reading and may bee authorised by experience The mot of an Impresa may not exceede three wordes Emblems are interpreted by many verses An Impresa is not garnished with many different Images Emblemes are not limited In Deuises it is enacted that the figure without the mot or the mot without the figure should not interprete the Authors meaning In Emblems is more libertie and fewer lawes Impreses manifest the special purpose of Gentlemen in warlike combats or chamber tornaments Emblems are generall conceiptes rather of moral matters then perticulare deliberations rather to giue credit to the wit then to reueale the secretes of the minde What should I say more This Impresa is that perfect Symbolum for antiquitie to bee reuerenced for worthinesse admired for pleasure embraced Pardon me I pray you if I rainge a little chase a discourse in this so wide a Forrest let me recorde some monument of the olde Registers of Greece Agamemnon Soueraigne at the seige of Troy bare in his sheild a Lion saliant with this mot 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Amphitruo being encamped against the Thebans caused to be portrayed vpon his Target Cum quadrigis sol exoriens and breathed life into that body by this soule In ardualaurus Artetemesia to testifie her selfe a loyal wife to her Lorde and King wore in her Tablet an Eliotropium rising and falling with the Sunne adding this mot Persoluet vota pictas which was verified for she enterred the ashes of her slain husband in no other Tombe then in her owne body so that death could scarse diuorse them But let vs come nigher hande Vascus Gama being diswaded from the