Maphaei s.r.e. card. Barberini nvnc Vrbani pp. VIII. Poemata
A 1638 Roman collection of Latin poems by Pope Urban VIII, formerly Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, printed at the Apostolic Camera press and issued for a learned and clerical readership. Its pictures are small engraved emblems and ornamental vignettes, including a haloed putto face in rays, a bee among scrolls and garlands, and a bearded mask with a laurel wreath, offering a designer compact Baroque motifs of bees, laurel, rays and cornucopia for borders and seals.












