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Hæc non sunt bona presagia. I mostri nei fogli volanti della Wickiana (2012)

Micrologus: Natura, Scienze e Società Medievali
Volume: 20
Pages: 401--410

Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Article in a special issue, “Estremità e escrescenze dei corpi / Extremities and Excrescences of the Body”
Language: Italian

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Visual representation; visual communication Earthquakes Comets; meteors; meteorites Teratology; monsters Floods Diaries Natural history 16th century Europe

I have described a number of 16th century prints representing real or imaginary monstrous creatures with anomalous protuberances and other malformations, or with chimeric bodies.They belong to a collection of 429 leaflets or pamphlets representing frightening natural events -- like fire, earthquakes, floods and comets -- monsters, crimes, etc., which was assembled by Johann Jakob Wick, a minister and theologian who lived in Zurich. Many of the leaflets came from renown printing centres, e.g., Augsburg Nurnberg and Strasburg. They were all incorporated into Wick's personal daily diary, written between 1560 and 1 88, which is regarded as one of the most remarkable accounts of social and cultural history of the second half of the 16th century in Europe.

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