Emblem 92

Emblem 92

A dog and a hare supporting a crown on a columnAI-generated

Craincte & amour font viure en grand honneur.

Fear and love make one live in great honour.AI-generated

Description of the woodcutAI-generated

A woodcut in a rectangular frame: in a landscape with a tree at the right, hills and birds in the sky at the left, a tall columnar pedestal stands in the centre supporting a royal crown with fleurs-de-lis. At the left a dog rears up on its hind legs, reaching with its forepaws to hold the crown; at the right a hare likewise stands upright on its hind legs, touching the crown with its forepaws.

Subscriptio

Facsimile page of emblem 92 — Facsimile of the page (Herzog August Bibliothek); click to enlarge.

TranscriptionAI-generated

PRince qui veult, que sa vertu fleuronne,Et que son bruyt soit en tous lieux famé:Pour asseurer son sceptre & sa couronne,Fault que des siens il soit crainct & aymé.Par ce moyen sera bien reclamé,Et des Subiectz honnoré nuict & iour.Le Lieure crainct, le Chien à grand' amour.Deux ennemys, ferme paix entretiennent,Craincte & Amour tiennent Roys en seiour.Lieures & Chiens les couronnes soustiennent.

TranslationAI-generated

A prince who wishes his virtue to flower, and his renown to be famed in all places, in order to secure his sceptre and his crown must be feared and loved by his own people. By this means he will be well called upon, and honoured by his subjects night and day. The hare fears, the dog has great love. Two enemies maintain a firm peace; Fear and Love keep kings in their place. Hares and dogs uphold crowns.

Iconclass

86(CRAINCTE & AMOUR FONT VIURE EN GRAND HONNEUR) proverbs, sayings, etc. (CRAINCTE & AMOUR FONT VIURE EN GRAND HONNEUR)

44B19 insignia and symbols of sovereignty (crown, diadem, sceptre, orb, seal, standard, cloak, pectoral)

44B191 crown (symbol of sovereignty)

25F26(HARE) rodents: hare

34B11 dog

25F26(HARE) rodents: hare

44B127 ruler and his subjects

56DD1 Fear, Dread; 'Paura', 'Timidità o Timore', 'Timore' (Ripa)

56F2 (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa)

Suggested Iconclass codesAI-generated

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

34B11 doghigh

The correlate simply means 'dog', matching the dog rearing on its hind legs at the left of the woodcut.

25F26(HARE) rodents: harehigh

The correlate 'rodents: hare' matches the hare standing upright on its hind legs at the right touching the crown.

Relationships to the Adagia of ErasmusAI-generated

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

II ix 62 Oderint, dum metuant – thematic inventiolow

The emblem's lesson that a prince must be both feared and loved ('Fault que des siens il soit crainct & aymé') engages the classic proverbial debate on princely fear encapsulated in the tyrant's maxim 'Let them hate, so long as they fear', which the emblem corrects by pairing crainte (hare) with amour (dog) as joint supports of the crown.

IV iii 78 Leporis vita – thematic inventiolow

The hare in the woodcut stands for fear ('Le Lieure crainct'), drawing on the proverbial commonplace, recorded in this adage, of the hare as the type of a life lived in constant trepidation; no textual quotation, only shared iconographic commonplace.