Dell'imprese
Scipione Bargagli's Dell'imprese, printed by Francesco de' Franceschi in Venice in 1594, is a treatise on the design and interpretation of personal devices, written for courtiers, academicians and heraldic scholars. The 138 engravings are oval medallions ringed by Latin or Italian mottoes, enclosing landscapes, rivers, moons, bare trees and rising smoke in fine linear hatching, usable as frames, roundels and small emblem motifs.
