TNTL 118/4

Jan Bloemendal

Een emblematicus en zijn inspiratie. De bronnen van Otho Vaenius' Amoris Divini Emblemata, Antwerpen 1615 - ontlening en adaptatie

Abstract -- In his Amoris Divini Emblemata (Emblems on the Divine Love, 1615) Otho Vaenius reworked his Amorum Emblemata (1608), emblems on secular love, into a religious book. He asked others to make Spanish and French verses. He himself composed poems in Dutch and he gathered quotations from the Bible, the church fathers and some medieval authors. He also made the picturae which represent the Soul in the shape of a female angel or genius and Divine Love as an Amor-like figure with a bow and arrows. In some cases, one of the quotations was the starting point of an embem. Vaenius did not collect these quotations all by himself. For some quotations, he used, for instance, the florilegium of Josephus Langius, Nova polyanthea (1604, many reprints) as a source. Thus he could make a religious emblem book rather quickly.

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