But Politics also have the bright, if not the dark, side of their nature presented to the world in Emblems. Giulio Capaccio, Venetia, 1620, derives “IL PRINCIPE,” _The Prince_, from the Emblems of Alciatus, “with two hundred and more Political and Moral Admonitions,” “useful,” he declares, “to every gentleman, by reason of its excellent knowledge of the customs, economy, and government of States.” Jacobus à Bruck, of Angermunt, in his “EMBLEMATA POLITICA,” A.D. 1618, briefly demonstrates those things which concern government; but Don Diego Saavedra Faxardo, who died in 1648, in a work of considerable repute,—“IDEA de vn Principe Politico-Christiano, representada EN CIEN EMPRESAS,”—_Idea of a Politic-Christian Prince, represented in one hundred Emblems_ (edition, Valencia, 1655), so accompanies his Model Ruler from the cradle to maturity as almost to make us think, that could we find the bee-bread on which Kings should be nourished, it would be no more difficult a task for a nation to fashion a perfect Emperor than it is for a hive to educate their divine-right ruling Queen. _Plate 3_ La Creatione & confuſuione del Mondo, 1 [Illustration: _Creation, Symeoni 1559_] Prima ch’ il gran futtor dell’ Vniuerſo Con pietà gli poneſſe intorno mente, Era cieco nel Mar l’ Aer ſommerſo, Nel centro il Fuoco, e’l tutto era niente, Ch’ ogni Elemento, di virtù diuerſo, Non hauea luogo à lui conueniente: Ma del verbo diuím l’amor profondo D’ vn C A O S ordinò ſi bello il Mondo, But, so great is the variety of subjects to which the illustrations from Emblems are applied, that we shall content ourselves with mentioning one more, taking out the arguments, as they are named, from celebrated classic poets, and converting them into occasions for pictures and short posies. Thus, like the dust of Alexander, the remains of the mighty dead, of Homer and Virgil, of Ovid and Horace, have served the base uses of Emblem-effervescence, and in nearly all the languages of Europe have been forced to misrepresent the noble utterances of Greece and Rome. Many of the pictures, however, are very beautiful, finely conceived, and skilfully executed;—we blame not the artists, but the false taste which must make little bits of verses where the originals existed as mighty poems.