Featured on PDR in the collection The City of Truth, or, Ethics (1609)

Published in Paris at the beginning of the seventeenth century by Ambroise and Jérôme Drouart, Civitas Veri sive Morum (The City of Truth; or, Ethics) presents an allegorical poem by Bartolomeo Del Bene (1515-1595) — a reworking of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics — adorned with a series of wonderful emblem illustrations (most of which we feature below). The excellent Spamula blog sums up Del Bene's poem thus: