Aelia Laelia Crispis Non Nata Resurgens In Expositione Legali
This 1683 Latin legal treatise by Carlo Cesare Malvasia, held by Heidelberg University Library, is a scholarly work for jurists and antiquarians, concerning the Roman inscription and case of Aelia Laelia Crispis. Its pictures are engraved plates showing a winged sphinx and lion flanking a funerary inscription block, a pair of carved pedestals with tree and foliage in an etched landscape, and a coiled serpent enclosing a tangled monogram. A designer might take the crisp Baroque typography, the symmetrical framing of text by figures, and the ouroboros medallion as models for classical ornament.
