Achillis Bocchii Bonon. Symbolicarvm qvaestionvm, de vniverso genere, quas serio ludebat, libri qvinqve
Contributors: Parmigianino, 1503-1540; Bonasone, Giulio, ca. 1498-ca. 1580; Fontana, Prospero, 1512-1597; Carracci, Agostino, 1557-1602; SocietÃ  typografica bolognese
Publisher: Apud Societatem TypographiÃ¦ Bononiensis
Published: 1574
Place of publication: Bononiae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Emblems; Early works to 1800; Symbolism in art
Work titles: Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere
Notes: Device of the SocietÃ  tipografica bolognese on t.p. (female allegory of Bologna). The 2nd emblem is Bocchi's port. (A3v). Mortimer notes that Giulio Bonasone's engravings after Prospero Fontana and Parmigianino are repeated from the 1st ed. of 1555 except for no. 36 which is a copy. Agostino Carracci may have engraved no. 1, which in the 1555 ed. is a woodcut; he retouched the others, the occurrence of first and second states varying from copy to copy.

Signatures: [dagger]â´, b-fâ´, A-Yyâ´ (Yy4 blank)

Includes index.

Mortimer, R.  Italian 16th cent. 77.

Landwehr, J.  French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese emblem books, 163.