Vipera Pythia :
Vipera Pythia is a 1651 Latin treatise on snake venoms by the Neapolitan physician Marco Aurelio Severino, printed in Padua by Paolo Frambotti for medical readers. Its pictures are small woodcut headpieces and ornaments: a decorated initial with a lion-like figure, a cherub set among foliage and serpent-headed scrolls, a warrior beside a tree bearing a scroll inscribed PAX, and a bracket of birds and fruit swags, useful to a designer seeking Baroque strapwork and emblematic motifs.
