Filippo Picinelli

Filippo Picinelli in Mondo simbolico.

Filippo Picinelli (1604 - c.1679) was an Augustinian canon.

Biography

Picinelli was born in Milan, Italy in 1604 and in 1614 a joined the Augustinian Order. He studied Philosophy and Theology at Cremona and Piacenza, lived in Milan. Picinelli believed that the world of God's creation could read as a symbolic book. This led him to assemble an encyclopaedia of emblems extending to more than a thousand pages, his Mondo simbolico(Symbolic World).

Books

• Ateneo dei letterati milanesi, Milan, 1670 [1].
• Foeminarum S. Scripturae Elogia (1694 Latin edition [2]
• Labores Apostolici (1711 Latin edition, Vol. 1 [3]
• Lumi riflessi, 1667 (1702 Latin edition Lumina reflexa[4])
• Mondo simbolico, 1635 (1681 Latin edition, Mundus Symbolicus, Vol. 1 [5]; 1687 Latin edition, Vol. 2 [6])
• Sacrarum religionum (1696 Latin edition [7])
• Symbola virginea (1694 Latin edition [8])
• Tributa encomiorum (1697 Latin edition [9])

External links

• 4 Enoch [10]