Andrea Alciato's Livret des Emblemes, Paris: Chrestien Wechel, 1536, with a French translation by Jean Lefevre. This book, containing 113 emblems is the first emblem book to include French. The Latin text below the emblem (not shown) reads: "Dextra tenet lapidem, manus altera sustinet alas, Ut me pluma levat, sic grave mergit onus. Ingenio poteram superas volitare per arces, Me nisi paupertas invida deprimeret." (My right hand holds a rock, the other bears wings. As the feathers lift me, so the heavy weight drags me down. By my mental gifts I could have flown through the heights of heaven, if malign poverty did not hold me back).