Geroglifici morali
Geroglifici morali is a 1626 emblem book printed in Naples by Giovanni Domenico Roncagliolo, written by the seventeenth-century author Vincenzo Ricci and aimed at readers wanting moral lessons on virtues and vices. Each woodcut sits in an ornate strapwork and cartouche frame around a single allegorical figure with attributes, such as a tree, a banner, a wheel or a bird, which a designer could borrow for symbolic framing devices and decorative borders.
