{"id":11087,"date":"2018-07-07T11:16:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T18:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=11087"},"modified":"2018-07-07T11:16:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T18:16:14","slug":"maybe-you-already-know-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/07\/maybe-you-already-know-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe You Already Know This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11089\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-07-at-2.02.47-PM-300x282.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-07-at-2.02.47-PM-300x282.png 300w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-07-at-2.02.47-PM.png 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But I didn&#8217;t. Not until fairly recently, at least.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11088\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-07-at-2.00.57-PM-300x285.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-07-at-2.00.57-PM-300x285.png 300w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-07-at-2.00.57-PM-768x730.png 768w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-07-at-2.00.57-PM.png 860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Filippo Picinelli&#8217;s famous\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/mundus-symbolicus-cologne-1694\/oclc\/498488243\/editions?sd=desc&amp;referer=di&amp;se=yr&amp;editionsView=true&amp;fq=\">Mundus symbolicus<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>is <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/mundussymbolicus00pici\">on line<\/a> pretty much all over the place. And <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=l89KAAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PA326&amp;lpg=PA326&amp;dq=%22minor+ore+suo%22&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=ZpDBqBxgsh&amp;sig=oCKEA_LYJlS5VkBvy12IzWHuzU4&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=uxvIVLrzKNCBygS_iIGIAQ&amp;ved=0CDgQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">Book IV<\/a>, treating the emblematic use of birds, is hugely productive, and hugely under-exploited, font of information about the &#8220;properties,&#8221; real and imagined, of birds and their meanings.<\/p>\n<p>There is Some.Very.Weird.Stuff in here.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Northern Lapwing\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/41451226920\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1764\/41451226920_b40e924d9a.jpg\" alt=\"Northern Lapwing\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Northern lapwings, for example, can stand for the words of the heretic, attractive at first but foolish and obscene when examined by the intellect. Or they can be the soul cleansed in baptism that falls back into sin. And so on, depending on what you happen to want it to mean.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the\u00a0<em>Mundus\u00a0<\/em>is not an emblem book itself but rather an encyclopedia serving as an index. I&#8217;ve found it pretty difficult all in all to track down the actual emblemata Picinelli describes, but practice makes slightly better.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I didn&#8217;t. Not until fairly recently, at least. Filippo Picinelli&#8217;s famous\u00a0Mundus symbolicus\u00a0is on line pretty much all over the place. And Book IV, treating the emblematic use of birds, is hugely productive, and hugely under-exploited, font of information about the &#8220;properties,&#8221; real and imagined, of birds and their meanings. There is Some.Very.Weird.Stuff in here. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/07\/maybe-you-already-know-this\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maybe You Already Know This&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11087"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11090,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11087\/revisions\/11090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}