Vignette with bust crowned with wings and garlands, under a phoenix in a fiery nest, supported by two putti. Two crocodiles at bottom. Latin motto: Vitam cinis ipse redonat, Virtutem aeterna optante fraus muta retardat. He returns life to ashes, Wishing for eternal power, slows dumb fraud. Copperplate engraving by Marcantonio Canini from Giovanni Angelo Canini's Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de’Lazari, Rome, 1699.

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