List 4-2013 - Libreria Antiquaria Alberto Govi

later phase are outstanding fourteen panes depicting the estates for the Rathaus in Lucerne. After
his election to major of Winterthur in 1611 until his death he worked at a biblical drama Ecclesia
Edessaena Messopotamica afflicta (cf. P. Tanner, Daniel Lindtmayer und Christoph Murer – zwei
Künstler im Einflussbereich von Tobias Stimmer, in: “Zeitschrift für Schweizerische Archäologie
und Kustgeschichte”, 42, 1985, pp. 124-128).
Nicolaus Reusner, a native of Lemberg in Silesia, studies law at Wittenberg and Lipsia. For a
while he taught rhetoric and dialectic at the ‘Gymnasium illustre’ in Lauingen. In 1583 he obtained
a doctor’s degree from the University of Basel and in the same years was called to the Strasbourg
Academy as a professor of jurisprudence. In 1588 he moved to Jena, were he also taught law at the
university and were he held several important offices at the court of Saxony. Reusner was also a
skilled neo-Latin poet and a very learned polyhistor. Apart numerous juridical publication he was
not only the author of the present iconographic dictionary of famous men, but also of a compendium
of classical mythology organized in emblematic manner, Picta poesis Ovidiana (1580), all
illustrated by Stimmer (cf. A. Schindling, Humanistische Hochschule und freie Reichsstadt: Gymnasium
und Akademie in Strassburg, Wiesbaden, 1977, pp. 289-322).
VD 16, R-1429; Adams, R-408; H.W. Davies, Catalogue of a Collection of Early German Books in
the Library of Charles Fairfax Murray, (London, 1913), no. 361; P. Tanner, op. cit., p. 237, no. 118;
M. Pelc, Illustrium imagines. Das Portraitbuch der Renaissance, (Leiden, 2002), p. 239, no. 128.
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