Deux Viperes ayans la tête l’un dans l’autre
![A female viper is biting off the head of a male one f16914506](/static/images//f1691/pictura/beeld4506.jpg)
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Literature
Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web]
, p/no. 45/6
- Junius, Emblemata [web]
, embl. 38
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A female viper is biting off the head of a male one- snakes: viper (+ male animal)
[25F42(VIPER)(+22)]
- snakes: viper (+ female animal)
[25F42(VIPER)(+23)]
- snakes: viper (+ animals mating)
[25F42(VIPER)(+432)]
- snakes: viper (+ dying animal; death of animal; dead animal)
[25F42(VIPER)(+63)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of
concept)
[56F2(+4)]
- Good and Bad Behaviour, Moral Qualities (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[57AA7(+4):31D15]
- Mortality, Extinction of Life (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[58BB1(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT)
[86(VENUS IMPROBAT)]