
Nimium sapere.
Too wise for your own good.
Celuy qui regardant s’efforce,
De vaincre du Soleil la force,
S’en retourne aveugle du lieu,
Fol est qui d’une face fiere
Pense adjouster à sa lumiere,
Regardant la clarté de Dieu. Link to an image of this page [B8r p31]Ces choses seules appartiennent
Aux oiseaux de Dieu, qui soustiennent
La grandeur de ceste clarté
A l’oeil du Soleil qu’ils advisent
Leurs yeux davantage ils aiguisent,
Non que par eux il soit dompté.
Estime ta fortune heureuse
Par une grace plantureuse,
Dont le sort t’a voulu prouvoir:
Et qui plus est, encore pense
Avoir eu toute jouissance
De ce que tu voudrois avoir.
Les cieux qui les astres maintiennent
O Phaëthon, ne t’appartiennent,
Bien que tu vueilles t’estimer:
Icare d’asseurance fole
Voulant monter jusques au pole
Se laissa choir dans la mer.
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Relating to the image:
- animals (+ wings of an animal) [25F(+342)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm held downwards [31A2515] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Jupiter (with NAME) [92B18(EAGLE)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- coast [25H13] Search | Browse Iconclass
- contemplating nature [43B11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- contemplating the firmament [24F1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- death i.e. the fall of Icarus, without Daedalus [95A(ICARUS)681] Search | Browse Iconclass
- falling through the air [31A2764] Search | Browse Iconclass
- groups of plants (herbs) [25G13] Search | Browse Iconclass
- looking upwards [31B6211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mountains [25H11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- one leg in front of the other (+ sitting) [31A2621(+53)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- predatory birds: eagle (+ postures, positions of animal(s)) [25F33(EAGLE)(+53)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sea (seascape) [25H23] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sitting on the ground [31A2351] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sun represented as face, wheel, etc. [24A6] Search | Browse Iconclass
Relating to the text:
- blind, blindness [31A4111] Search | Browse Iconclass
- fall of Phaethon; he is struck by a thunderbolt of Jupiter [92B39117] Search | Browse Iconclass
- light [22C] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Rashness, Imprudence, Recklessness (+ emblematical representation of concept) [52AA21(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Stupidity, Poverty of Intellect; 'Stupidità overo Stolidità' (Ripa) [52AA1] Search | Browse Iconclass
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