L'erofilomachia; ouero, Il dvello d'amore, & d'amicitia, comedia nvova. Aggiontoui in questa nuoua editione vn discorso
This 1594 Venetian comedy by Sforza Oddi, printed by G.D. Imberti and held by the University of Toronto's Fisher library, is a late sixteenth-century Italian play about love and friendship. The only picture is a printer's or owner's device, a shield bearing a crown over a bridge-like emblem, topped by a leafy tree and inscribed with the motto VELUT ARBOR AEVO, drawn in plain black line. A designer might take from it the formal logic of a heraldic shield, with its scroll banner and tree crest, as a compact model for a bookplate or institutional seal.
