
Tolerantia.
Patience
L’homme qui est magnanime
A tousjours l’esprit sublime,
Et ne craint l’adversité:
Prevoyant le malencontre
Il s’enhardist a l’encontre
Et garde sa liberté.
Comme au lieu d’un beau branchage[1]
Un autre se faict passage
Et verdoye peu apres,
Ainsi l’esprit qu’on tourmente,
Au travail tousjours augmente,
Et s’enforce tout exprés. Link to an image of this page [K2v p148]Ce qui a son origine
De l’excellence divine,
Par labeur n’est point dompté:
Tousjours par labeur & peine
Moindrist la puissance humaine,
Dont l’esprit est confortè.
1. The Golden Bough: reference to the offering made by Aeneas and the Sybil to gain admission into Hades (Aeneid, book 6)
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- Aeneas affixes the 'Golden Bough' to the threshold of Pluto's palace [96B547] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm raised upward (+ other neutral connotations) [31A2511(+939)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched forward (+ holding something) [31A2512(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched forward (+ indicating, pointing at) [31A2512(+931)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- baldness [31A5339] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beard [31A534] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Cerberus, the three- or many-headed dog; 'Cerbero' (Ripa) [93E4] Search | Browse Iconclass
- entrances to Hades [930] Search | Browse Iconclass
- fire (one of the four elements) [21C] Search | Browse Iconclass
- index finger forwards, pointing, indicating [31A25552] Search | Browse Iconclass
- old man [31D16] Search | Browse Iconclass
- one leg in front of the other (+ standing) [31A2621(+51)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- one leg in front of the other, walking position (+ standing) [31A26211(+51)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trees (+ branch, stick) [25G3(+22)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trees (+ stem, trunk) [25G3(+21)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Adversity, Misfortune, Bad Luck; 'Fortuna infelice', 'Infortunio' (Ripa) [54FF11] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Fearlessness, Intrepidity; 'Intrepidità & Costanza' (Ripa) [54A81] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Freedom, Liberty; 'Libertà' (Ripa) [51E11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Industriousness, Assiduity; 'Assiduità', 'Industria', 'Zelo' (Ripa) [54A11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- leaves, putting forth leaves «« KEY (33) TO 25G plants; vegetation [25G(+33)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mind, spirit [31B] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Opposition, Counteraction, Resistance (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54EE11(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Pain, Sorrow, Sadness; 'Dolore', 'Dolore di Zeusi' (Ripa) [56BB1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Progress, Improvement, Recovery (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54F13(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Strength, Power; 'Fortezza', 'Fortezza d'Animo e di corpo', 'Fortezza del corpo congiunta con la generosità dell'animo', 'Fortezza & valore del corpo congiunto con la prudenza & virtù del animo', 'Forza' (Ripa) [54A7] Search | Browse Iconclass
- the Sublime [51D43] Search | Browse Iconclass
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