Abstract
106 To be safe from both the gods and men, from the cold, the winds, the rain, dress in the furs of the mice from your barn, from your own small cache of good days. This is the way to walk among thieves: pocketless, protected by your motley coat, and able, even so, to catch more mice to stitch another when this one wears out. Andrea Alciati’s Emblematum liber or Book of Emblems, a collection of 212 Latin emblem poems, was first published in 1531 and was expanded in various editions during the author’s lifetime. RICHARD HOFFMAN EMBLEM 37 / ON SECURITY adapted from Alciati’s Book of Emblems ...
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