Link to an image of this page [E6v p76]
Contre Astrologues.
LIII.
Icare cheut dedans la mer
Par trop grande exaltation:[1]
Cil qui veut le ciel entamer,
Est trop plein de presomption:
Doncques sur ceste fiction,
Doyvent garder les Astrologues,
Qui leur haute discussion
Ne les mette où Dieu met les rogues.
Link to an image of this page [E7r p77]
commentaires.
Icare fut fils de Dedale, lequel
se fit des aisles à l’i-
mitation de son pere, avec des plumes & de la cire:
mais voulant outrepasser le commandement du pere,
& voler plus haut qu’il ne devoit, la chaleur du so-
leil fondit la cire, avec laquelle estoyent assemblees ses
plumes, si que ses aisles estans desjoinctes & separees,
il luy convint tomber & se noyer en la mer, qu’il
nomma de son nom. La triste aventure d’Icare doit
servir d’exemple à la posterité, & notamment aux
Astrologues, qui recerchans trop curieusement ce
qu’ils ne devroyent, tumbent bien souvent en des con-
fusions horribles, & se meslans de dire la bonne a-
venture aux autres, ne voyent pas leur propre mal-
heur qui les attend à la porte.
1. Cf. Anthologia graeca 16.107, a poem on a bronze statue of Icarus, translated by Alciato at Selecta epigrammata (Cornarius, ed.) p.333. Icarus and his father Daedalus (see Daly [FALd008], n) escaped from King Minos of Crete on wings of feathers and wax. Icarus was over-bold and flew too near the sun; when his wings melted, he crashed into the Icarian Sea and was drowned. See Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.183ff. Icarus, like Phaethon (see [FALd064]) was a type of those who do not keep to their proper station.
Related Emblems
Show related emblemsHint: You can set whether related emblems are displayed by default on the preferences page
Iconclass Keywords
Relating to the image:
- sun represented as face, wheel, etc. [24A6] Search | Browse Iconclass
- animals (+ feathers) [25F(+352)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- rocks [25H112] Search | Browse Iconclass
- island [25H14] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sea (seascape) [25H23] Search | Browse Iconclass
- prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city [25I12] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- falling through the air [31A2764] Search | Browse Iconclass
- youth, adolescent (+ nude human being) [31D12(+89)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- violent death by heat (boiling lead, burning coal, etc.) (+ variant) [31E2321(+0):31E225] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sailing-ship, sailing-boat (+ under way, at sea (~ travelling)) [46CC24(+63)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- nude with wings [5(+1211)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- death i.e. the fall of Icarus, without Daedalus [95A(ICARUS)681] Search | Browse Iconclass
Relating to the text:
- astrology [14] Search | Browse Iconclass
- astrologer at work [14A0] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Folly, Foolishness; 'Pazzia', 'Sciocchezza', 'Stoltitia' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [52AA51(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Prediction, Prophecy; 'Augurio', 'Divinatione', 'Profetia' (Ripa) [52E2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Arrogance; 'Arroganza' (Ripa) [57AA644] Search | Browse Iconclass
Hint: You can turn translations and name underlining on or off using the preferences page.
