Saavedra Fajardo, Diego de, 1584-1648. Idea de un principe politico christiano, 1640.Typ 620.40.763
Saavedra Fajardo, Diego de, 1584-1648. Idea de un principe politico christiano, 1640.Typ 620.40.763 (B)Houghton Library, Harvard UniversityAn emblem from a book on the education of princes. An online exhibition from the University of Iowa explains: “Siempre el mismo” (Always the same one). “Whatever the mirror represents over its whole surface appears in each piece when it has been broken. Thus the lion looks at himself in the two pieces of the mirror engraved here, and signifies the strength and the perseverance the prince must always maintain” -- source link
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