Iconologia, ovvero, Immagini di tutte le cose principali a cui l'umano talento ha finto un corpo
An 1819 Milan edition published by P.A. Tosi, the Italian illustrated handbook of personifications, compiled from Cesare Ripa's 1593 Iconologia by Filippo Pistrucci with plates by Antoine François Sergent-Marceau, meant for artists and designers who needed allegorical figures. The hand-coloured plates show standing or seated women and sometimes men, each with an attribute such as a mirror, sun, lion, dog, flame or sword, so a designer can borrow the emblem-and-pose vocabulary for allegorical imagery.
