Filippo Picinelli

Filippo Picinelli in Mondo simbolico.

Filippo Picinelli (1604 - c.1679) was an Augustinian canon.

Biography

Picinelli was born in Milan, Italy in 1604 and in 1614 a joined the Augustinian Order. He studied Philosophy and Theology at Cremona and Piacenza, lived in Milan. 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).

Books

Ateneo dei letterati milanesi, Milan, 1670 .
Foeminarum S. Scripturae Elogia (1694 Latin edition
Labores Apostolici (1711 Latin edition, Vol. 1
Lumi riflessi, 1667 (1702 Latin edition Lumina reflexa)
Mondo simbolico, 1635 (1681 Latin edition, Mundus Symbolicus, Vol. 1 ; 1687 Latin edition, Vol. 2 )
Sacrarum religionum (1696 Latin edition )
Symbola virginea (1694 Latin edition )
Tributa encomiorum (1697 Latin edition )

References

↑ Olms-Weidmann

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