Abstract
In the early modern emblematic genre, motti (mottoes), picturae (pictures) and subscriptiones (epigrams) were combined. Because of the strong connection and interaction between word and image, emblems are profoundly intermedial. By examining the role and presentation of Augustine in emblems, this chapter contributes to the author's insight into the intermedial reception history of the Church Father. The chapter sheds some light on the interaction between word and image in the reception of Augustine's ideas, and on the dynamic transfer of these ideas from one intermedial product to the other. More specifically, it analyses the textual and visual interpretation of three tracts attributed to Augustine:the Meditationes , the Soliloquia , and the Manuale in two Catholic adaptations of the religious emblem book Pia Desideria (Pious Wishes, Antwerp, 1624) in the Dutch Republic: Pia Desideria (1628) and Vierighe meditatien etc. (Devout Meditations, 1631). Keywords:Augustine; Catholic emblem; Dutch Republic; early modern emblematic genre; intermedial; Manuale ; Meditationes ; Pia Desideria ; Soliloquia ; Vierighe meditatien etc.
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