La Murtoleide fischiate
La Murtoleide fischiate is a 1629 satirical polemic by Giambattista Marino, printed at Speyer by Henricus Starckius and aimed at his rivals Gaspare Murtola and Tommaso Stigliani. The single picture is a woodcut printer's device in a circular frame with a rampant crowned lion holding a cross, above the Latin motto 'Iuda vicit'. A designer could take from it the strong heraldic symmetry of a lion inside a ring of scrolled border and lettered band.
