Achillis Bocchii Bonon. Symbolicarum quaestionum de vniuerso genere quas serio ludebat libri quinque
Contributors: Fondo Cicognara (Biblioteca apostolica vaticana); Bonasone, Giulio, approximately 1498-approximately 1580, ill; Charles Trinkaus Microfilm Collection
Series: Cicognara library
Publisher: In aedib. Nouae Academiae Bocchianae
Published: 1555
Place of publication: Bononiae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Emblems; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Symbolicarum quaestionum de vniuerso genere quas serio ludebat libri quinque.
Work titles: Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere quas serio ludebat libri quinque
Notes: Verses illustrated with 151 emblematic copper engravings by Giulio Bonasone.

Signatures: pi2 A-E4 chi4 2chi2 2A-2I4 2K6 2L-2V4.

Errata: leaf E4v.

Includes indexes.

Known in two states; in one, signature B has lines beginning with large capitals and p. cclvi, line one begins "Siccarios"; in the other, B has lines beginning with small capitals and p. cclvi, line 1 begins "Sicarios" (plus other distinctions).

Cicognara, 1850

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 112.

Adams B2194.

Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent., 76.

Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese books of devices and emblems, 162.

Praz, M. Studies in 17th cent. imagery (2nd ed.), p. 276.