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With his Atlas Mnemosyne, Aby Warburg has highlighted the importance of artistic personifications as a vehicle for the expression of concepts, experiences and emotions, which escape the realm of the rational (because they maintain mythopoetic elements) and pose dynamics in constant tension. This paper deals with the personification that Johannes Sambucus has made of History in the Differentia emblem (1564). It will be pointed out that the originality of this personification resides in a combination of literary and iconographic motifs which, far from ascribing to the Aristotelian and Platonic traditions, distance themselves from the Ciceronian meaning of History as a master of life, by giving preference to his experience as editor of Classical texts and official historian of Emperor Maximilian II. Based on the importance of historiographical practice for Sambucus and comparing the aforementioned emblem with the introduction that he wrote about the History of Hungary (1568) by Antonio Bonfino, we will search to elucidate the most enigmatic aspects of Differentia, trying to map the different conceptions and representations that humanists had of the historical discipline in the mid-16th century.
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