The Italian convert : news from Italy of a second Moses; or, The life of Galeacius Caracciolus, the noble Marquess of Vico, containing the story of his admirable conversion from popery, and forsaking of a rich marquesdom for the Gospels sake. Illustrated with several figures
The Italian convert is a 1677 London Protestant devotional narrative, printed for Abel Roper, recounting the conversion of the Italian Marquess of Vico from Catholicism to the Gospel and was intended for general English readers. Its crude engravings show crowned and robed figures in courtly exchanges, including a bishop-like cleric beside money sacks and a bearded man handing papers at a desk, giving a designer plain period costume, gestures of bargaining and renunciation, and the stiff composition of late seventeenth-century book illustration.
