“Here is a claim of interdisciplinarity which has real foundation. . . . [Emblematica] contains heartening readings and decodings, all demonstrating that such reading and decoding of the early modern world is still possible for scholars who are prepared to take the trouble. Perhaps most important of all, there is a palpable sense of delight in the journal — delight in research and delight in the ingenuity and beauty of what is being studied.” —Peter Davidson, Times Literary Supplement Preface to Volume Twenty In Memoriam Articles Walter S. Melion, “`Conspicitur prior usque fulgor’: On the Functions of Landscape in Benito Arias Montano’s Humanae salutis monumenta (1571)” Miranda Anderson, “Mirroring Mentalities in George Wither’s A Collection of Emblemes” Jane Farnsworth, “Gender, Culture, and Emblematic Practice in E. F.’s The Embleme of a Vertuous Woman [London, 1650?]” Elizabeth Black, “Gilles Corrozet’s `Domestic’ Emblems: Gender and Ethics at Home in the Hecatomgraphie and Emblems in Cebes” Pierre Martin, “`Redimentes tempus’: Eschatological Perspective in Andreas Friedrich’s Emblemes nouveaux (1617)” Catherine Oakes, “Bedtime Stories: The Painted Emblems Formerly in the Schoolboys’ Dormitory in the Deanery of Bristol Cathedral” Gabriele Quaranta, “From Pages to Walls and Vice Versa: Applied Emblems between Tristan l’Hermite’s Poetry and Seventeenth-Century French Decoration” Thomas A. Bauer, “Habsburg Imprese in the Archbishop’s Palace in Brixen, Italy” Texts Max Reinhart, Georg Philipp Harsdörffer and the Emblematic Pamphlets of 1641–42: Peristromata Turcica and Aulaea Romana Research Reports, Notes, Queries, and Notices Mason Tung, “Seeing Is Believing”: A Note on the Forgettable History of Illustrating Alciato’s Emblems Michael Bath, The Proofs of Antonio Tempesta’s Engravings for Historia Septem Infantium de Lara: Glasgow University Library, S.M. Add.14 Reviews and Criticism John L. Lepage, The Revival of Antique Philosophy in the Renaissance, reviewed by Alastair Fowler Stewart Conn, ed., The Hand That Sees: Poems for the Quincentenary of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, reviewed by Jameson B. Kismet Bell Simon McKeown, ed., The International Emblem: From Incunabula to the Internet. Selected Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies, reviewed by Michael Bath Andrea Alciato, Andrea Alciati Emblematum liber, Augustae Vindelicorum 1531. Emblematum libellus, Parisiis 1534, and Otto Vaenius, Daniel Heinsius. Otto Vaenius, Amorum Emblemata, Antwerpen, 1608. Daniel Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor..., translated by Hiroaki Ito, reviewed by Misako Matsuda Simon McKeown, ed, Otto Vaenius and His Emblem Books, reviewed by Michael Bath Alison Adams, Stephen Rawles, and Alison Saunders, A Bibliography of Claude-François Menestrier: Printed Editions, 1655–1765, reviewed by Margaret M. McGowan Misako Matsuda, Sh?kusupia to enburemu: Jinbunsyugi no bunkateki kis? [Emblematic Shakespeare: Cultural Substratum of Humanism], reviewed by Shinji Yamamoto Index