Compendium maleficarum ex quo nefandissima in genus humanum opera venefica, ac ad illa vitanda remedia conspiciuntur ...
Compendium maleficarum is a 1626 Latin treatise on witchcraft written by Francesco Maria Guazzo and printed in Milan at the Ambrosian college press, aimed at scholars and clergy who needed to recognise and counter sorcery. The woodcuts show a horned, winged devil seated on a pedestal addressing a crowd of onlookers, and a later scene of costumed figures dancing around a horned man, giving a designer clear examples of grotesque demonic figures and crowd gatherings in early modern print style.
