Achille Bocchi
Illustration — Achille Bocchi. Achille Bocchi (Achilles Bocchius) (1488 – 6 November 1562), of Bologna, was an Italian humanist writer, emblematist, historian and lector in Greek, poetry and "humanae litterae" at the University of Bologna. He is best known for his emblem book Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere from 1555, which "takes as its subject the whole of universal knowledge: physics, metaphysics, theology, dialectic, Love, Life and Death, packaging them under the veil of fables and myths." It borrowed from Francesco Colonna.
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Achille Bocchi
Achille Bocchi (1488–1562) · Symbolicarum quaestionum, de vniuerso genere, quas serio ludebat, libri quinque · Public domain
- Born
- 1488. · Bologna.
- Died
- 1562. · Bologna.
- Nationality
- Lordship of Bologna and Papal States.
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- humanist, historian and writer.
- Teachers
- Giovan Battista Pio.
- Languages
- Latin.
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Illustration — Achille Bocchi. Achille Bocchi (Achilles Bocchius) (1488 – 6 November 1562), of Bologna, was an Italian humanist writer, emblematist, historian and lector in Greek, poetry and "humanae litterae" at the University of Bologna. He is best known for his emblem book Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere from 1555, which "takes as its subject the whole of universal knowledge: physics, metaphysics, theology, dialectic, Love, Life and Death, packaging them under the veil of fables and myths." It borrowed from Francesco Colonna.
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Also worked under the name Phileros. Born at Bologna in 1488, died in Bologna in 1562.
Training under Giovan Battista Pio is recorded. Marcantonio Flaminio is recorded as having studied under Achille Bocchi. The recorded working language is Latin. Employment is recorded with University of Bologna.
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An engraving in Achille Bocchi's Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere, quas serio ludebat, libri quinque printed at Bologna. The picture shows Socrates with his daimonion.
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- 1.she-philosopher.com: Gallery exhibit (The Athenian Society)
- 2.John Manning, The Emblem (2002) p.114.
- 3.Manning p.73 refers to Bocchi's wholesale pillaging of one of Colonna's hieroglyphic fragments.
- 4."Playing seriously" (Manning p. 154).
- 5.It was engraved in 1555. Wolfgang Lotz, "Architecture in the Later 16th Century" College Art Journal 17.2 (Winter 1958, pp. 129-139) fig. 4.
- 6.The emblematic nature of the inscriptions, turning the whole façade into an emblem of the Accademia Bocchiana, is discussed in Marcus Kiefer, Emblematische Strukturen in Stein: Vignolas Palazzo Bocchi in Bologna (Freiburg: Rombach) 1999. For another point of view and a different analysis, see Anne Rolet, « LHermathena Bocchiana ou l'idée de la parfaite académie », in M. Deramaix, P. Galand-Hallyn, G. Vagenheim, J. Vignes (dir.), Les Académies dans l'Europe humaniste. Idéaux et pratiques Genève, Droz, 2008, p. 295-338
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