Sapientiae pignus amabile philosophia universa in Coll. Flor. Soc. Iesu data anno 1647

Spada, Valerio, 1613-1688, engraver, Massi, Amador, active 1636-1645, printer, Arrighi, Fabiano, Lazzarino, Lorenzo, Jesuits · 1647 · Florentiae : Typis Amatoris Massae Foroliuien. · 14 pictures

A 1647 Florentine philosophy textbook printed by Amador Massi for the Jesuit college in Florence, with engravings by Valerio Spada, a set of allegorical title pages and plates. The pictures are finely etched allegorical scenes of clouds, personified figures, globes, and landscapes, offering a designer ideas for baroque symbolic frontispieces, cartouches, and emblematic compositions.

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