Emblemi di Andrea Alciato, huomo chiarissimo, dal latino nel vulgare italiano ridotti
Emblemi is an Italian translation of Andrea Alciato's Latin emblem book, printed in Padua in 1626 by P. P. Tozzi, with translation by Paolo Emilio Cadamosto for a learned readership. Its small woodcut images each sit in a framed panel above a moral motto, and the scenes are mostly mythological or allegorical: a bound man with an eagle, a figure on a mule-drawn cart, a seated woman tended by a winged child, and a man carrying another through flames. A designer could take from them the compact framed-vignette format, the dense hatched woodcut line, and the decorative ornamental border.
