Icon animorum, or, The mirror of minds /

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Original Latin text with English translation on facing pages. In this essay from 1614 the Neo-Latin poet, translator, and commentator John Barclay describes the manners and mores of his European contemporaries. He derives the sources of an individual''s peculiarities of behavior and temper...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barclay, John, 1582-1621 (Autor)
Otros Autores: May, Thomas, 1595-1650 (Traductor), Riley, Mark T. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Louvain, Belgium : Leuven University Press, 2013.
Colección:Bibliotheca Latinitatis novae.
Temas:
Barclay, John, > 1582-1621. > Icon animorum.
Icon animorum (Barclay, John)
National characteristics > Early works to 1800.
Caractéristiques nationales > Ouvrages avant 1800.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Ancient Languages.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
National characteristics
Early works
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1. Introduction to John Barclay, Icon Animorum 1614; 2. William Barclay; 3. Life of John Barclay; 4. Antecedents to the Icon Animorum; Antecedents
  • The Four Ages
  • Icon Animorum Chapter 1; Antecedents
  • National Character
  • Icon Animorum Chapters 2-9; Antecedents
  • The Characters of Men
  • Icon Animorum chapters 10-16; 5. Barclay''s Latin; 6. John Barclay''s Place in Literature; 7. Thomas May and the English Translation; 8. Outline of the Chapters of the Icon Animorum; 9. Previous Editions of the Icon Animorum; 10. Translations.
  • 11. Principles of this EditionSigla; The Mirror of Minds or John Barclay''s Icon Animorum; Caput I. Aetates hominis quattuor: pueritia, adolescentia, aetas virilis, et senectus; Caput II. Saecula paene singula suum genium habere, diversumque a ceteris. Esse praeterea cuilibet regioni proprium spiritum qui animos in certa studia et mores quodammodo adigat. Hos spiritus investigari operae pretium esse; Caput III. Galliae dotes et ingenium incolarum; Caput IV. Britannicae Insulae, in quibus diversi populi, Angli, Scoti, Hiberni.
  • Caput V. Germaniae ritus et Belgii, cui hodie Germaniae inferioris nomenCaput VI. Italia et Italorum indoles; Caput VII. Hispanorum genius, mores; Caput VIII. Hungari, Poloni, Mosci, gentes reliquae ad septentrionem positae; Caput IX. Turcae, Iudaei.
  • Temerariis, timidis, superbis, sordidis, languidis et reconditis, hilaribus et exertis. De inconstantibus ingeniis, omnia acriter sed non diu volentibusCaput XII. De animis amori obnoxiis. Hos affectus singulorum temperari et interdum mutari a fortuna et vel splendida vel obscura vitae condicione; Caput XIII. Diversos affectus esse tyrannorum et legitimorum principum. Rursus regum qui successionis iure et eorum qui suffragiis ad regnum perveniunt. De procerum, qui apud principes gratiosi sunt, ingenio.

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