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English: Humana Fumus, dans Les Emblèmes (n° 73)

Gabriel Rollenhagen (1583-1619), Cologne, 1611. Gravure sur cuivre, 15 × 15 cm BnF, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ars 4 BL 4988

Pulvis et umbra sumus; pulvis nihil est nisi fumus, Sed nihil est fumus; nos nihil ergo sumus.

Hee, that on Earthly-things, doth trust Dependeth, upon Smoake, and Dust.

The vocabulary is keyed to the DCC Latin Vocabulary list. There are only two words in this poem that are not on the DCC list:

fūmus, fūmī m. - smoke, steam pulvis, pulveris m. - dust

ergo: therefore et: and hūmānus -a -um: human nihil, nīl: nothing; not at all nisi/nī: if not, unless nōs nostrum/nostrī nobis nōs: we sed: but sum, esse, fuī: be, exist

umbra -ae f.: shade, shadow
Français : Publiés en Europe aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, les livres d’emblèmes traduisent les doutes, les interrogations et les espérances religieuses de leurs contemporains en associant des images énigmatiques, semées de symboles, et des textes courts, poèmes et devises. Les différentes formes qu’y revêt la sphère – simple boule, globe terrestre muni de ses accessoires (cercles méridien et horizon), sphère cosmique (céleste ou armillaire) – guident également l’interprétation. Dans ces ouvrages, l’ambivalence symbolique du globe semble découler, des propriétés physiques de la sphère elle-même : instabilité et imprévisibilité d’une part, perfection géométrique d’autre part, qui lui valut d’être érigée en modèle de l’univers. Réinterprétées sur le plan moral, ces qualités déterminent comme l’avers et le revers d’une même médaille. Boule qui tourne, la sphère symbolise l’inconstance de l’amour, les revers de la fortune, et, plus généralement, notre monde sublunaire, voué à l’impermanence et à la mort.
Español: Humana fumus = Las cosas humanas [son humo]. «Polvo y sombra somos; el polvo no es nada más que humo; pero nada es el humo: luego nosotros nada somos.».
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Gabriel Rollenhagen  (1583–1619)  wikidata:Q96338 s:de:Gabriel Rollenhagen
 
Gabriel Rollenhagen
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Gabriel Rollenhagius; Angelius Lohrber e Liga; Gabriel Rollenhague
Description German graphic artist
Date of birth/death 22 March 1583 Edit this at Wikidata 1619 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Magdeburg Edit this at Wikidata Magdeburg Edit this at Wikidata
Work period Baroque
era QS:P2348,Q37853
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creator QS:P170,Q96338
SalvorHardin (digital restorer)
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