Pia desideria. : Lib. iii. ad Vrbanvm VIII.
A Jesuit emblem book of devotional meditations by Herman Hugo, printed at Antwerp in 1632 and dedicated to Pope Urban VIII, written for Catholic readers pursuing the soul's progress toward God. Small upright copperplate engravings pair a child-sized soul in a long robe with a haloed winged Amor Divinus, set in hatched landscapes of scrubby trees, hills and stepped visionary architecture; useful for figure groupings, emblem borders and dense linear shading.
