The quotations from Montaigne’s Essays in the English are from the translation by John Florio, 1603. The illustration Saturn and his Zodiacal Signs is from Von den XII Zeichen des Gestirn, 1470, Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, MS C.54 (719), Fol. 14, vol. 2.
My sincere gratitude to Marion May Campbell and Isabel Morais for their generosity in making so many resources available to me.
Prior research was carried out during a Macgeorge Fellowship at the University of Melbourne. My thanks to the Potter Foundation and to the English Department at the University of Melbourne.
This project has been assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.