Profetieën sterven niet. Byzantijnse orakels in de politieke en religieuze propaganda op Kreta in de zestiende eeuw
- Jeannine Vereecken
Abstract
The Oracula Leonis, a series of cryptic prophecies ”in words and figures" attributed to the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise, have been copied and interpreted for almost 1000 years. About 1577, in the scope of the anti-Turkish propaganda, the Veneto-Cretan humanist and hermetist Francesco Barozzi made a special edition of the text, dedicated to the governor of Crete, Giacomo Foscarini. This edition has been preserved, a.o., in the - until recently - unknown Codex Bute, a luxury manuscript illuminated with 24 splendid miniatures by the Cretan painter Georgios Klontzas.
How to Cite:
Vereecken, J., (2002) “Profetieën sterven niet. Byzantijnse orakels in de politieke en religieuze propaganda op Kreta in de zestiende eeuw”, Tetradio 11(1): 5, 125–148. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tetradio.91967
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