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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nicholas Molinari, post: 2922045, member: 78411&quot;]Thanks, I appreciate you saying so.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rizzo&#039;s monumental work went for a good price:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=348743" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=348743" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=348743</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I wish I had the funds for it at the moment, but I just bought a 1621 version of Alciati&#039;s <i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=6BtUAAAAcAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=6BtUAAAAcAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">Emblemata</a></i>, and my wife will only let me buy so many books that I can&#039;t read! My version has two beautiful man-faced bulls, which he describes as minotaurs.&nbsp; One is depicted on the Roman legionary standard and I&#039;m convinced it was originally Acheloios, and Pliny, who originally wrote about it, mistook Acheloios as a man-faced bull for a minotaur.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]707707[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]707708[/ATTACH]</p><p>And just for fun, Alciati&#039;s idea of the ultimate violation of nature:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]707709[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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