Symbola heroica M. Clavdii Paradini ... Et D. Gabrielis Symeonis
Symbola heroica is a 1600 emblem book by Claude Paradin and Gabriello Simeoni, with a Latin translation by Johannes Gubernator, printed for a learned readership of humanist scholars and collectors of devices. Its woodcut emblems pair a small picture with a motto and a Latin commentary, so a designer can borrow the compact, symbol-driven layouts: a central motif framed by ornament, text set around it, and gloved hands, serpents and crowns used as single-image marks.
