TROMM, ABRAHAM (ABRAHAM TROMMIUS)Biblio.com
Coraggio e viltà l'uno nella virtù l'altra nel vizio. Estratto di diversi concetti storie e profittevoli Favole col quale li Predicatori Oratori Poeti ed altre persone possono utilmente e con gusto pascere la virtuosa curiosità. Opera … tradotta dal tedesco nell’italiano adornata con cento Figure ed arricchita d’un copioso Indice
1717116<p>4° mm 230x168; ll. 6 pp. 400. Woodcut frontispiece and <strong>100 emblematic woodcuts</strong> each approx. 105×120 mm. Contemporary vellum binding. Small restorations to the title page and pp. 353–54. Overall a fine copy.</p><p>First edition in Italian the original title: <em>Huy und Pfuy der Welt</em> 1707.</p><p>A very interesting richly illustrated book by the Augustinian preacher Abraham a Sancta Clara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_a_Sancta_Clara. The treatise is a kind of iconographic and textual compendium intended for use by the popular preacher. Its format of emblem commentary 'favola' enables a constellation of homiletic <em>exempla</em> to be committed to memory in keeping with a very ancient rhetorical and visual tradition cfr. L. Bolzoni <em>La rete delle immagini. Predicazione in volgare dalle origini a San Bernardino da Siena</em> Torino 2002.</p><p>"One of the greatest orators Germany has ever produced. People flocked to hear him drawn by the power and vivid clarity of his speech by the inexhaustible wealth of his wit and by the impartial severity with which he denounced the vices of all social classes. He poured his whole being into everything he said. Endowed with extraordinary creativity and inventive originality Abraham blended into his imaginative style fables short stories anecdotes erudite quotations witty sayings colourful and sometimes trivial wordplay sudden asperations personal recollections and vivid genre sketches with flashes of true eloquence—passionate fiery and vibrant. Even when he wrote he stood so to speak at the pulpit and saw his audience before him face to face" L. Bianchi.</p> Per Gio. Parone
