Le imprese illustri del S.or Ieronimo Ruscelli.
A Venetian emblem book of heraldic devices compiled by Girolamo Ruscelli and issued by Francesco de' Franceschi in 1584, made for nobles, courtiers and printers who collected the personal imprese of Italian families. Each engraved plate sets a small motto scroll and symbolic scene inside an architectural frame of strapwork, herms, satyrs, grotesque masks and fruit swags, giving designers ready-made cartouches, borders and ornament vocabulary.
