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was more or less concentrated in Italy - in general, see
Kirschbaum 1968-76, vol. 7, pp. 300-306. On the devo­
tion of the saint in Flanders around 1600, cp. Knipping
1939-40, vol. 1, pp. 219-221.
265. It is rather puzzling to note that complete
copies of the series - such as the one in the Museum
Plantm-Moretus, bound in one volume with an unillus-
trated Dutch publication on the saint, written by Philips
Numan and dated 1593 (inv. R 56) - include two intro­
ductory pages printed (verso and recto) in letterpress,
dated Rome 1559(!)«This concerns a short Latin intro-
ducnon and an explanation of the views of Pope Clemens
VIII on whether Saint Catherine could be rendered with
the stigmata or not, written by one Marcus Vestrlus
Barblanus. This could imply that Philips (or Cornells)
Galle issued the series first in Rome and later in Antwerp.
Another possibility is that Galle and Ophoven simply
copied these texts from an (unknown) earlier Italian pub­
lication on Saint Catherine. In any case, it seems certain
that Ophoven and the Antwerp Black Friars were involved
in the production of Galle's Antwerp reissue.Van Ophoven
may have been the one who translated the Latin verses
into Dutch, as printed at the very back (pp. *recto to *4
recto) of the same Antwerp copy of Galle's publication.
266. Hollstein, vol. 9, p. 204, nos. 71-82. Pleter de
Jode's series afterVanni consists of a tide page and 11 prints
with each 3 subjects taken from the life of St. Catherine.
On Florimi as a print publisher, cp. Kortekaas 1992; also
see note 297.
267. Even the here illustrated tide page and the
portrait of St. Catherine were copied from the title page
of Florimi s original series.The title page shows the por­
traits of prelates, priests and friars who played a role in the
life of die Sienese saint or were Important in the propa­
gation of her devotion, One can identify just to mention
a few: Pope Pius II, who canonized Catherine in 1461,
and die Dominican friar Raimondo da Capua, her con­
fessor and compiler of the first biography
268. Rather appropriately the series was - apart
from Pleter de Jode, who was probably hired on account
of the high reputation of Flemish printmakers in gener­
al - entirely a Sienese project, asVarmi was a native of Siena
as well. Florimi dedicated his series to Christine of
Lorraine, wife of the Grand Duke ofTuscany, Ferdinand©
de'Medici.
Notes Chapter 4
211
269. This copy - pardy in reverse, partiy in the same
direction - of the entire series, was engraved and pub­
lished In 1608 by Philip Thomassm m Rome. The latter
has added French and Italian translations of the original
Latin verses. Another copy was printed with Latin, Italian
and Spanish verses at an unknown date; compare Insolera
1996, pp. 63-67, nos. 8-9, where this copy is (erroneous­
ly) described as a second original version produced by
Florimi and De jode jointly.
270. The following paragraphs are more or less the
same as 'The history of Gerommo Nadal's Evangelicae his-
toriae imagines', as found in the English version of Sellink
1996-97, translated by Karen Bowen.
271. On the production of Plantin In the period
1585-89, also seeVoet 1984 (especially pp. 368-369) and
Voet 1988.
272. For examples of early Illustrated religious
works by Jesuits authors published by the Plantin Press,
see Imhof 1996-97, pp. 97-90, nos. 1-3 (Petrus Canisius,
Johannes David andThomas Sailly). On the scholarly Leys,
see Van Houdt 1996; on the very popular Politers, active
in the second half of the seventeenth century 7
, compare
Rombauts 1930. A general study on illustrated spiritual
books published in the Southern Netherlands in the six­
teenth and seventeendi centuries has recently appeared:
Insolera 1996. This catalogue is useful concerning the
analysis of Counter-Reformatorian tendencies In illus­
trated books, but is most inadequate in its information on
authors, engravers and (print)publishers.The classic study
on the emblematic character of so many illustrated devo­
tional books Is of course: Praz 1964 and its sequel Praz
1974.
273. A brief, but adequate description of the activ­
ities of the Jesuits in Antwerp from 1585 to c. 1650 can
be found in Thijs 1990, pp. 64-73 and 80-91 (mainly
regarding their confraternities devoted to the Virgin) .The
quintessential study of the Jesuits in the Netherlands is
still Poncelet 1927-28, especially vol. 2, pp. 480-516
(scholarly and literary activities); reeendy appeared the
useful collection of studies Deneef 1992.
274. See Bollandus 1640a (Latin version) and
Bollandus 1640b (Dutch version), published by Balthasar
Moretus I, with engravings by Cornells Galle the Elder.