About the book: year / The work Atalanta Fugiens (1617), which was based on the myth of Atalanta and Hippomenes, became a kind of peak of Mayer’s work, or, in any case, , that part of it that was devoted to music, Alchemy and poetry. As the author himself describes the book, these are “new Chemical Emblems, revealing the Secrets of Nature, suitable both for contemplation and reflection, in figures engraved on copper, with accompanying descriptions, epigrams and notes, intended to recreate in soul and sound fifty musical fugues for three voices, two of which are reduced to a simple melody, to which the couplets are sung, and the whole thing can be considered, read, used for meditation, understood, appreciated, sung and listened to with some pleasure…»