Antonius a Burgundia, Linguae Vitia Et Remedia (Antwerp, 1631)

by T. van Houdt

This first modern reprint of Antonius a Burgundia's neat and concise emblem book Lingua vitae et remedia is based on the copy in the Royal Library Albert I at Brussels. The book focusses on one extremely important issue: the vices of the tongue-abuse, equivocation, insults, detraction, blasphemy, lying, perjury and calumny. It was issued almost simultaneously in Latin and Dutch with the vices of speech, the second offers remedies for such defects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2503507743
• ISBN13: 9782503507743
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 166 Pages