Leonis Allatii Animadversiones In Antiqvitatvm Etrvscarvm Fragmenta
Leonis Allatii Animadversiones In Antiqvitatvm Etrvscarvm Fragmenta is a 1640 Latin scholarly work on Etruscan antiquities by Leone Allacci, edited by Curzio Inghirami and held by Heidelberg University Library. The pictures are small engraved and printed emblems rather than scenes of the Etruscan world: two show a gilded imperial double-headed eagle with a laurel wreath around a shield marked LI, and one is a framed roundel with a pelican feeding its young at centre and four vignettes of family scenes around it. A designer could take from them the compact symmetry of a central motif enclosed in a wreath or roundel, and the restrained engraved linework of seventeenth-century heraldic ornament.
