Vignette of two putti in laurel crowns holding an ouroboros over a human skull. Latin motto: Melior Defunere Vitam. Better to bury life. 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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