Jaca Book publishes Mircea Eliade's dictionary of sacred images

Jaca Book has released a volume on the iconography and iconology of the sacred, edited by Mircea Eliade and originally compiled in 1986, the year of his death. The book collects texts from several scholars and explores the symbolic representation of the sacred from prehistoric times to Eliade's era, with a focus on the Lascaux caves. Eliade, a controversial yet brilliant figure born in 1907, was a historian of religions, writer, philosopher, anthropologist, orientalist, and mythographer. He mastered eight languages, traveled extensively, lived in India from 1928 to 1931, taught at the École des Hautes Études and the Sorbonne in Paris, and later moved to Chicago after World War II. The dictionary entries draw on historical-artistic, philosophical, and anthropological interpretations to illuminate the complexity of humanity's artistic, philosophical, and existential past. The 198-page book costs €35 and is available at jacabook.it.