Emblem 76

Emblem 76

A gambler at a table with dice; a ragged man turns awayAI-generated

De Ieu, Misere, & Poureté procedent.

From gaming, misery and poverty proceed.AI-generated

Description of the woodcutAI-generated

Interior of a room with a panelled wall and tiled floor. At the left, a bearded man in a cap and loose gown sits behind a long table on which lie dice and small square objects (coins or stakes); he leans forward with one hand on the table and raises his other arm, pointing or gesturing toward the right. At the right stands a thin bare-headed man with a long face, his arms folded across his chest, wearing a short doublet and torn, tattered breeches and hose, his shoes worn through; he turns away as though leaving the table.

Subscriptio

Facsimile page of emblem 76 — Facsimile of the page (Herzog August Bibliothek); click to enlarge.

TranscriptionAI-generated

Qvand l'homme fol à iouer se hazarde,Pas il ne pense au mal, qu'en peult venir:Main liberale au ieu, qui n'y prend garde,En pouretè faict l'homme deuenir:Lyer la fault, pour mieulx la retenir,Et conseruer le bien en bons vsages:Le ieu met l'homme en perilleux nauffrages,Et bien souuent en mortel desespoir.Les grandz meschefz & dangereux passages,Que lon en void, nous seruent de miroir.

TranslationAI-generated

When the foolish man risks himself at gaming, he does not think at all of the harm that can come of it: a hand that is liberal at play, and takes no heed, makes a man fall into poverty: it must be bound, the better to restrain it, and to keep one's goods for good uses: gaming puts a man into perilous shipwrecks, and very often into deadly despair. The great mishaps and dangerous straits that one sees come of it serve us as a mirror.

Iconclass

86(DE IEU, MISERE, & POURETÉ PROCEDENT) proverbs, sayings, etc. (DE IEU, MISERE, & POURETÉ PROCEDENT)

41A2 interior of the house

41A711 table

31D14 adult man

41D2(+7) clothes, costume (+ worn or torn clothes)

43C512 playing-cards

43C552 dice

46B311 coin

43C5 games of calculation and chance, e.g.: card games, gambling, puzzles, etc.

53B3 Self-control; 'Dominio di se stesso' (Ripa)

Suggested Iconclass codesAI-generated

Additional codes proposed for this emblem, not (yet) part of the indexing.

43C55 dice-gameshigh

The scene shows a gaming table with dice and stakes where a man has evidently gambled away his clothing, matching the correlate 'dice-games'.

43C552 dicehigh

Dice are explicitly depicted lying on the table, matching the correlate 'dice'.

Relationships to the Adagia of ErasmusAI-generated

Suggested relationships between this emblem and adages in Erasmus’ Adagia.

I ii 69 Festo die si quid prodegeris – thematic inventiolow

The emblem's moral — that an unchecked 'main liberale' squanders goods that should be kept 'en bons vsages', so that misery and want follow — matches Erasmus's warning against lavish spending that leaves nothing for everyday need, applied to those who 'waste their substance and go hungry afterwards'. No verbal borrowing, only a shared commonplace of profusio.

I v 16 Zonam perdidit – thematic inventiolow

The picture of the gambler turning away from the dice table in torn breeches and worn-out shoes, having lost everything, visually embodies the proverb for the man left without a penny in his belt; but there is no textual link to the emblem's French motto or verse.