Filippo Picinelli
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Reverend Filippo Picinelli | |
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_(14750639252).jpg) Filippo Picinelli in Mondo simbolico. | |
| Born | Carlo Francesco Picinelli November 21, 1604 |
| Died | 1686 (aged 81–82) |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation(s) | Catholic priest, emblematist, writer, preacher |
| Known for | Il Mondo simbolico |
| Title | abbot |
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| Era | Seicento |
| Discipline | Iconography |
| Influenced | Claude-François Ménestrier |
Filippo Picinelli (21 November 1604 – 1686) was an Italian Augustinian canon, scholar and emblematist.
Biography
[edit]Picinelli was born in Milan, Italy in November 1604. At baptism he was named Carlo Francesco, but upon his entrance into the Augustinian Order (1614), his name was changed to Filippo. He studied philosophy in Cremona and theology in Piacenza, where he probably graduated. Once ordained a priest, he devoted himself to teaching in the colleges of his order; he also acquired a considerable reputation as a preacher. Picinelli published several works, in Latin and Italian, among which the following stand out: Applausi festivi o siano Panegirici varii (Venice, 1649), Foeminarum sacrae scripturae elogia (Milan, 1657), Lumi, e riflessi (Milan, 1667), Ateneo dei litterati milanesi, an important biographical source book for Milanese writers and artists (Milan, 1670), and Fatiche apostoliche (Milan, 1672-1674). He died in 1686.
Il Mondo simbolico
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Picinelli believed that the world of God's creation could read as a symbolic book.[1] This led him to assemble an encyclopaedia of emblems extending to more than a thousand pages, his Mondo simbolico (Symbolic World). First published in 1653, Picinelli's Mondo Simbolico was exceedingly popular among the intellectual elite of the Baroque era and went through several editions. It was intended for preachers, orators, poets and artists and contained many examples drawn from the works of his predecessors, particularly Alciato and Valeriano.[2] For the material for his encyclopaedic survey of symbols, Picinelli drew also on old manuscripts, some of them unpublished, from Italian monasteries.
Picinelli's work was translated into Latin by the Augustinian monk Augustinus Erath (1648-1729), and in the process also expanded. This expanded Latin edition (first published in Cologne in 1681) went through several new editions and can be regarded as the most comprehensive emblem encyclopedia of the seventeenth century.[3] The comprehensiveness of Picinelli's work made it a model for subsequent scholars, including Claude-François Ménestrier, Johannes Michael von der Ketten, Arthur Henkel and Albrecht Schöne.[4]
Books
[edit]- Ateneo dei letterati milanesi. Milan: Vigone. 1670. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- Foeminarum S. Scripturae Elogia: Centuria Singularis. Nuremberg: Ziegerus. 1694. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- Labores Apostolici. Vol. 1. Augsburg: Wohler. 1711. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- Lumina reflexa. Frankfurt: sumptibus societatis. 1702 [1667]. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- Mundus Symbolicus. Vol. 1. Cologne: Hermann Demen. 1681 [1653]. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- Mundus Symbolicus. Vol. 2. Cologne: Hermann Demen. 1687 [1653]. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- Sacrarum religionum maximae. Augsburg: sumptibus Laurentii Kronigeri et Haeredum Theophili Goebelii. 1696. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- Symbola virginea. Augsburg: sumpt. Laur. Kronigeri & Haered. Theophilli Goebelii. 1694. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- Tributa encomiorum. Kempten: impensis Laurentij Kronigeri & Haeredum Theophili Goebelij. 1697. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
References
[edit]- ^ "Filippo Picinelli: Mudus Symbolicus". Olms-Weidmann.
- ^ Volkmann, Ludwig (2018). Hieroglyph, Emblem, and Renaissance Pictography. Leiden: Brill Publishers. p. 235. ISBN 978-9004367593.
- ^ Peter M. Daly, ed. (2008). Companion to Emblem Studies. New York: AMS Press. p. 213. ISBN 978-0404637200.
- ^ Manning, John (2004). The Emblem. London: Reaktion Books. p. 127. ISBN 978-1861891983.
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