Origini Italiche O Siano Memorie Istorico-Etrusche Sopra L'Antichissimo Regno D'Italia, E Sopra I Di Lei Primi Abitatori Nei Secoli Più Remoti
Origini Italiche is a 1767 antiquarian study of Italy's earliest peoples and Etruscan past by Mario Guarnacci, published in Italian and held by Heidelberg University Library. Its plates are engraved pages of ancient coins, shown in pairs with obverse and reverse heads, animals, and inscriptions, drawn in fine black line on plain paper with numbered captions. A designer could draw on the clean, repeated roundel layouts and the simple linework of classical portraits and animal motifs for emblems or badges.
