Orazione funebre per la morte dell'augustissimo imperatore de' Romani Francesco I / [Gaetano Martini].

Cosimo e Francesco de' Medici, alchimisti / Giulio Lensi Orlandi.

A woman representing virtue is captured and bound by two men representing ignorance and error, assisted by Cupid representing love and a woman representing opinion. Chiaroscuro woodcut by A. Andreani, 1585, after J. Ligozzi.

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A woman representing virtue is captured and bound by two men representing ignorance and error, assisted by Cupid representing love and a woman representing opinion. Chiaroscuro woodcut by A. Andreani, 1585, after J. Ligozzi.