Pia desideria : lib. iii. ad Vrbanum VIII
Pia desideria is a 1632 Latin emblem-style devotional book published in Antwerp by Henricus Aertssens, with engravings by Boëce van Bolswert after verses by the Jesuit Herman Hugo, made for pious readers and religious meditation. The engravings are fine, crowded line work with winged angels, a praying figure in a landscape, and small allegorical scenes that suggest how a designer might use dense cross-hatching and symbolic figures for devotional or emblematic graphics.
