246 - Ripa, Cesare. *Iconologia* by Cesare Ripa of Perugia, Knight of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, divided into three books. Venice, Tomasini, 1645. An important 17th-century edition of the famous compendium of allegorical iconography

Ripa, Cesare. *Iconologia* by Cesare Ripa of Perugia, Knight of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, divided into three books. Venice, Tomasini, 1645. An important 17th-century edition of the famous compendium of allegorical iconography Ripa, Cesare. Iconology by Cesare Ripa of Perugia, Knight of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, divided into three books. Venice, Tomasini, 1645. Quarto (225 x 160 mm); [136], 685, [1] pages. Numerous woodcut plates in the text (scattered browning, some halos). Contemporary full-parchment binding with handwritten title on the spine (worn). A beautiful, illustrated edition of Cesare Ripa’s famous treatise, expanded by Giovanni Zaratino Castellini and enriched with a vast array of images and indexes. The *Iconologia* constitutes one of the most important compendia of allegories and personifications in European culture, destined to exert a profound influence on painters, sculptors, and writers in the figurative representation of virtues, vices, passions, arts, disciplines, and natural elements. The illustrations, accompanied by explanations of their respective symbolic attributes, made it a fundamental tool for seventeenth-century artistic culture. An important seventeenth-century edition of Ripa’s celebrated handbook of allegorical imagery