Konrad Peutinger, Jörg Breu, and Festina Lente: An Origin of the Early Modern Emblem in the Prayer Book of Maximilian I

Abstract

Printed in 1531 at Augsburg, Andrea Alciato’s Emblematum Libermarks the emergence of the early modern emblem. The book appears to have been published without the author’s permission at the behest of Konrad Peutinger, his friend and colleague to whom the collection of emblems is dedicated. In the previous decade, Alciato circulated his emblems, almost certainly unillustrated, among his friends in manuscript form. Alciato deemed the unsophisticated images by Augsburg artist Jörg Breu