
Levitas secura.
Untroubled lightness
Au milieu d’un grand fleuve une table est jettee,
Laquelle estant legiere au rivage est portee:
Mais l’autre plus pesant’ se r’enverse dans l’eau,
Et est portee au fond par son propre fardeau.
Le fol, l’adulateur, le menteur variable
Evitent quelque temps les dangers perilleux:
Mais ceux qui sont constants & bon religieux
Passent subitement le peril effroyable.
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- adult man (+ two persons) [31D14(+72)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm raised upward [31A2511] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched forward - AA - both arms or hands [31AA2512] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beard [31A534] Search | Browse Iconclass
- helmet [45C221] Search | Browse Iconclass
- looking upwards [31B6211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mountains [25H11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- plank, board ~ building material [47G5432] Search | Browse Iconclass
- prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city [25I12] Search | Browse Iconclass
- remaining suspended (movement in water) [31A2777] Search | Browse Iconclass
- river [25H213] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sinking (movement in water) [31A2776] Search | Browse Iconclass
- table (+ variant) [41A711(+0)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- coast [25H13] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Constancy, Tenacity; 'Costanza', 'Tenacità' (Ripa) [53A21] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Danger; 'Pericolo' (Ripa) [54DD51] Search | Browse Iconclass
- devotion, piety; 'Divotione' (Ripa) [11Q0] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Flattery; 'Adulatione' (Ripa) [57AA6121] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Folly, Foolishness; 'Pazzia', 'Sciocchezza', 'Stoltitia' (Ripa) [52AA51] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Heaviness (+ emblematical representation of concept) [51G2(+4):54DD5(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Lie; 'Bugia' (Ripa) [57AA6221] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Lightness; 'Leggierezza' (Ripa) [51GG2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Protection; 'Custodia', 'Difesa contra nimici, malefici & venefici', 'Difesa contra pericoli', 'Riparo da i tradimenti' (Ripa) [54E42] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Some Characteristics of Matter (+ emblematical representation of concept) [51GG2(+4):54D5(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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