Cronologia delle famiglie nobili di Bologna, con le loro insegne, e nel fine i cimieri : centuria prima, con vn breue discorso della medesima città
A 1670 Bologna heraldry book by Pompeo Scipione Dolfi, printed by Giovanni Battista Ferroni, cataloguing the noble families of Bologna with their coats of arms and crests. The pictures are small woodcut shields with bold black outlines, showing lions, stars, eagles, fleurs-de-lis, and diagonal bands, a clear vocabulary of heraldic devices a designer could adapt for emblems or monograms.
