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  • An omniscient virtuoso gestures boastfully at all the knowledge that lies available to him. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, c. 1700.
  • A medicine vendor selling antidotes to snake poison. Etching by G.M. Mitelli.
  • A seething mass of people driven by a multitude of different wills; representing the levelling of life by death. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1690.
  • Physicians, representing the Holy League against the Turks, gather around the sick sultan; representing the Peace of Karlowitz. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, ca. 1700.
  • A medicine vendor selling antidotes to snake poison. Etching by G.M. Mitelli.
  • A learned physician with a library of Latin books writes a prescription but cannot save his patients from death. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, c. 1700.
  • Arabian doctors perform bleeding on poor Italian people; money jets out with the blood; signifying learned Arabs fleecing the poor. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1699.
  • The Italian social fabric symbolised by a chain of social types, with all relations of dependence ultimately relating back to the devil. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, 1691.
  • A life-class in a grotesque academy of artists: a hunchback model being drawn by deformed students. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after P. De Rossi, 16--.
  • The Assumption of the Virgin. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after A. Carracci.
  • Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus. Engraving by G.M. Mitelli after N. Poussin.
  • A mason (architect) with the tools of his trade. Mezzotint by J. Gole after G.M. Mitelli.
  • Saint Antony of Padua. Etching G. M. Mitelli after E. S. Sirani.
  • A shoe-seller who has one foot and goes himself unshod. Mezzotint by J. Gole after G.M. Mitelli.
  • Saint Francis of Assisi, holding a skull, contemplating a crucifix. Etching by G. Guidalotti Franceschini after G.M. Viani, 16--.