Imágenes para la predicación del Evangelio. Presencia de las Imprese sacre del obispo Aresi en la oratoria sagrada española de la Edad Moderna

In the first part of the Seventeenth Century, the Theatine Paolo Aresi, Bishop of Tortona, wrote the Imprese sacre, a collection of symbolic images for the use of preachers which can be seen as a response to the concern to use the most effective means of persuasion in discourses such as the homily. In Spain, the Imprese sacre was well known early on, and its application in homilies was widespread, in both time and space. When reaching the IV Centennial of its publication, the aim of this paper is to analyse the use of the concepts from Aresi’s work in Spanish Sacred Oratory, specifically in its explanation of the passages of the Gospel