Apocalyptic animals in the Johannes Lichtenberger’s Pronosticatio and its Italian translation
Michela Del Savio
This article examines an Italian translation of the Pronosticatio by Johannes Lichtenberger (originally written in Latin and printed Germany for first time 1488) preserved manuscript London Wellcome Library 425, dated 1504. MS 425 contains nearly complete text, with exception a couple paragraphs xylographic apparatus; here we are concerned just version Lichtenberger’s work which, both text images (which presented thanks to wide circulation this distributed publishers 14 editions), more than fifty different animals mentioned. Focusing on concentration animals, will offer reading narrative role animal within prophetic genre, accompanied some hypotheses regarding what 1504 reader (the date is contained itself) could have thought which way he may interpreted kind text.
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