The Difficulty of Ruling over a Diverse Nation (1578)
16th-century Dutch engraving depicting a fantastical animal with the heads of various other animals sprouting from its body: an allegory for the difficulty of ruling …Continued
fantastical creatures
Fortunio Liceti’s Monsters (1665)
Highlights from the illustrations in the 1665 edition of Fortunio Liceti’s De Monstris, originally published, without the illustrations, in 1616. Liceti’s work, although not the …Continued