Minimum Eligendum

"The Prince's Valour consists not only in resisting, but withal in weighing Dangers, and submitting to the less, when the greater is insuperable. For as it is the part of Prudence to prevent, so it is of Courage and Constancy bear patiently what is not in the power of Prudence to decline. One Peril is ordinarily the Remedy of another"

Diego de Saavedra Fajardo. Idea de un príncipe político cristiano (1640)

 

 

UIUC Geographies of Risk
September 23-24, 2010

Geographies of Risk: An Exhibition on Early Modern Conceptions and Representations of Risk, held at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (27 August -26 October)

Curated by Mariselle Meléndez, Nora Stoppino, and Javier Irigoyen-García

Special Thanks to Dennis J. Sears, Paula Carns, Valerie Hotchkiss, Alvan Bregman, Christopher Moore, Linda Bial, Laura Larkin, Karri Fischer, and Yasmeen Shorish for helping to arrange the exhibition

De Bry

Theodor de Bry. Dritte Buch Americae, darinn Brasilia durch Johann Staden auss eigener Erfahrung in teutsch beschrieben. Frankfut am Mayn, 1593. Courtesy of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign