Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor: (Stanhope Historical Essay 1901)Seton-Watson, R. W. (Robert William)
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Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor: (Stanhope Historical Essay 1901)
Seton-Watson, R. W. (Robert William)
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1459-1519
[118] "Alle begehrenden und wirkenden Kräfte des Gemüthes können eines
jeglichen Dinges, wie nützlich und lustbar das immer erscheinen mag,
von täglicher Übung vielem und überflüssigem Gebrauche befriedigt,
erfüllet und zuletzt verdriesslich werden, allein die Begierde viel zu
wissen; die da einem Jeglichen von Natur eingepflanzet ist, die ist
gegen solche Ersättigung gefeiert und aller Verdriesslichkeit ganz und
gar nicht unterworfen"--quoted from Dürer, in Geiger, _Renaissance und
Humanismus_, p. 384.
[119] Beck only did seven. (Total 137.)
[120] See _Albert Dürer_, by Wm. Bell Scott, p. 67.
[121] Quoted, Scott's _Dürer_, p. 69.
[122] Headlam, _Story of Nuremberg_, p. 73.
[123] Maximilian also appears in Dürer's beautiful picture, "Das
Rosenkranzfest," now at Prague. The Blessed Virgin enthroned in the
centre gently lays a crown upon the head of Maximilian, who kneels
sideways, with clasped hands, to her left.
[124] Six more were printed by Lucas Cranach.
[125] See Joseph von Aschbach, _Geschichte der Wiener Universitat_, 2
vols.
[126] At the instance of Innocent VIII.
[127] Aschbach, xi. 65.
[128] They were as follows: Velocianus, 1508; Joachim v. Watt
(Vadianus), 1514; Janus Hadelius, 1515; Rudolfus Agricola (the
younger), 1516.
[129] The former he unearthed in the monastery of St. Emmeran at
Augsburg, and edited in 1501; the latter was found in the Franconian
monastery of Ebrach, and printed in Augsburg in 1507. See Wattenbach,
_Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen_, i. 1-6. On Celtes, see A. Horawitz,
_Zur Geschichte des deutschen Humanismus_, article in _Zeitschrift für
deutsche Kulturgeschichte_, 1875.
[130] _Script. Univ. Vienn._ ii. 32, quoted Aschbach.
[131] Ovid, the hymns of Aurelius Prudentius, a Christian poet, and
_Periegesis_ by Dionysius of Alexandria.
[132] From Julius Caesar up to the death of Maximilian.
[133] Janssen, i. 256-8.
[134] See _Jahrbuch det Kunsthistorischen Sammlung des ah.
Kaiserhauses, vol. vi._ containing _Weisskunig_.
[135] Bibliography of Maximilian--"_Die Bücher die Kaeyser Max selbst
macht--Grab, Ehren, Weise Künig, Teuerdanck, Freydanck, Triumph Wagen,
Stamm Cronick, der Stamm, Artalerey; die sieben Lust-Gezirck,
Wappen-Buch, Stall-Buch, Joegerey, Valcknerey, Kücherey, Kellnerey,
Fischerey, Goertnerey, Baumeisterey, Moralitoet, Andacht St. Jürgen.
Nec ullus eorum hactenus impressus est, praeterquam is qui inscribitur
der Theuerdanck._" Quoted in "Notice sur Max. I."; in Le Glay,
_Correspondence_, vol. ii.
[136] Janssen, i. 592.
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