“DVRABO” (I will resist) and “VICTRIX PATIENTIA DVRI” (Patience is victorious in difficulties)https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/dvrabo-y-victrix-patientia-dvri-gabriel-rollenhagen.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
I send you the twenty-sixth and twenty-eighth of a book of poems written by the same German poet Gabriel Rollenhagen. The book is entitled Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum, ‘The Nucleus of the Most Select Emblems’.
“NESCIT LABI VIRTUS” (Virtue does not know how to fall) and “QUOCUNQUE FERAR” (Wherever it is taken)https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/nescit-labi-virtus-y-quocunque-ferar-selectorum-emblemata.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
On this occasion I send you two emblems from the same book: Selectorum emblematum, with the text in Latin and Old French.
Two engravingshttps://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/grabados-9-y-59-selectorum-emblematum-gabriel-rollenhagen.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
I am sending you two emblems or engravings, number 9 and number 59, both from the book Selectorum emblematum – ‘Selected Emblems’ – written by the German poet Gabriel Rollenhagen.
“Spes et patientia vincit” (Hope and patience win)https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/la-esperanza-y-la-paciencia-vencen-daniel-cramer-emblema-31-default.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
In 1630 a book of emblems by Daniel Cramer was published called OCTOGINTA EMBLEMATA MORALIA NOVA ─’eighty new moral emblems’─.
This is the emblem number 31.
“Tolerantia in adversis adfert notionem dei” (Tolerance in adversity produces knowledge of God)https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/la-tolerancia-en-la-adversidad-produce-conocimiento-de-dios-marten-van-heemskerck-default.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
Estos grabados pertenecen a una serie de 14 dibujos llamada La Escalera de Jacob o La alegoría del camino a la salvación eterna, impresos por Dirck Volckertszoon en 1550. Los grabados llevan la firma del pintor neerlandés Maarten Van Heemskerck como su creador.
Cultura mundihttps://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cultura-mundi-gerard-van-groeningen.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
I now send you the second engraving of the sequence of four in total made by the Flemish artist Gérard Van Groeningen in 1573. This is the series of engravings encompassed under the title The Four Ways of Living on Earth.
When we talk about audacity, we are referring to a quality that not all people possess. It is a quality that a person either already brings from previous existences, or it can be, perhaps, an energy that a human creature has had to develop after having faced various circumstances in his life.
