“Tolerantia in adversis adfert notionem dei” (Tolerance in adversity produces knowledge of God)

Dear reader friends: It is with immense pleasure that I am writing to you to send you these engravings that I hasten to comment. The first of them is entitled… …TOLERANTIA IN ADVERSIS ADFERT NOTIONEM DEI─'Tolerance in adversity produces knowledge of God'─ These engravings belong to a series of 14 drawings called Jacob's Ladder or The Allegory of the Road to Eternal Bliss, printed by Dirck Volckertszoon in 1550. The engravings bear the signature of the Dutch painter Maarten Van Heemskerck as …