Pia desideria : emblematis elegiis & affectibus SS. Patrvm illustrata
A Latin emblem book of Christian devotion by the Jesuit Herman Hugo, engraved and published by Boëtius a Bolswert in Antwerp in 1624 for Catholic readers meditating on the soul's longing for God. Full-page engravings show a haloed winged child-soul among trees, birds and landscape, paired with woodcut headpieces of a grotesque mask flanked by cornucopiae, ribbons and tassels.
