9/11/2023 0 Comments Hasten slowly![]() ![]() ![]() In Love's Labour's Lost, he copied the crab and butterfly imagery with the characters Moth and Armado. The adage was popular in the Renaissance era and Shakespeare alluded to it repeatedly. ![]() Erasmus (whose books were published by Manutius) featured the phrase in his Adagia and used it to compliment his printer: "Aldus, making haste slowly, has acquired as much gold as he has reputation, and richly deserves both." Manutius showed Erasmus a Roman silver coin, given to him by Cardinal Bembo, which bore the dolphin-and-anchor symbol on the reverse side. The Renaissance printer Aldus Manutius adopted the symbol of the dolphin and anchor as his printer's mark. There are about 100 instances in the palace decorations and frescos and there are now tours with the object of finding them all. This emblem appears repeatedly throughout his Palazzo Vecchio where it was painted by the artist Giorgio Vasari. An example of the Medici impresa of the sailing tortoise in the Palazzo VecchioĬosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany took festina lente as his motto and symbolised it with a sail-backed tortoise. Other such visualizations include a hare in a snail shell a chameleon with a fish a diamond ring entwined with foliage and perhaps most recognizably, a dolphin entwined around an anchor. (He thought nothing less becoming in a well-trained leader than haste and rashness, and, accordingly, favourite sayings of his were: "Hasten slowly" "Better a safe commander than a bold" and "That which has been done well has been done quickly enough.")Ĭertain gold coins minted for Augustus bore images of a crab and a butterfly to attempt an emblem for the adage. Nihil autem minus perfecto duci quam festinationem temeritatemque convenire arbitrabatur. The Roman historian Suetonius, in De vita Caesarum, tells that Augustus deplored rashness in a military commander, thus " σπεῦδε βραδέως" was one of his favourite sayings: History The adage, in Greek and Latin, with the anchor and the dolphin, among the seven emblems of the University of Salamanca. The words σπεῦδε and festina are second-person-singular present active imperatives, meaning "make haste", while βραδέως and lente are adverbs, meaning "slowly". The original form of the saying, σπεῦδε βραδέως speũde bradéōs, is Classical Greek, of which festina lente is the Latin translation. It has been adopted as a motto numerous times, particularly by the emperors Augustus and Titus, the Medicis and the Onslows. This example is the printer's mark of Aldus.įestina lente ( Classical Latin: ) or speûde bradéōs ( σπεῦδε βραδέως, pronounced ) is a classical adage and oxymoron meaning "make haste slowly" (sometimes rendered in English as "more haste, less speed" ). Classical adage The emblem of the dolphin and anchor which has been used since Roman times to illustrate the adage. ![]()
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