PENANCE personification in an old and hoary woman: "this sad figure will be weeping; with a bundle of thorns in one hand; and in the other with a fish; because Penance must be seasoned with fasting; and with regret" ; the figure is completed by the Cross and "a Craticola; which arises (...) because; as it is half between the thing; which is tied; and the fire; so penitentia is halfway between the pains of the sinner; and l love of God. " Allegorical colored engraving from "'Of the very new Iconology of Cesare Ripa (around 1555 - 1622); Perugia (...); Work useful for Oratories; Preachers; Poets; Painters; Sculptors; Designers; & to every scholar to invent Concepts; Emblems ; and Companies (...) "enriched and corrected by Mr. Giovanni Zaratino Castellini (1570-1641); Roman. Pietro Paolo Tozzi; Padua 1625 - 1626