{"product_id":"victoria-ex-labore-tee","title":"Victoria Ex Labore Oversized Tee","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIn 1574, Bologna's Società Tipografica reissued Achille Bocchi's \u003cem\u003eSymbolicarum Quaestionum de Universo Genere,\u003c\/em\u003e a title that argues its own case: \u003cem\u003equas serio ludebat\u003c\/em\u003e, \"which he played seriously.\" Erasmus had his \u003cem\u003eAdagia\u003c\/em\u003e, Alciati his \u003cem\u003eEmblemata\u003c\/em\u003e of 1531; Bocchi, a Bolognese humanist and founder of his own academy, spent 151 emblems doing something similar: treating image and symbol as vehicles for theology, philosophy, and moral instruction, never mere decoration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis one belongs to his emblems on governance and conduct: an ox skull, crowned in laurel, under a motto that needs no footnote: \u003cem\u003eVictoria ex labore honesta, et vtilis\u003c\/em\u003e. Victory earned through labor is honorable, and worth having. The plate carries its own small history too, engraved by Giulio Bonasone after Prospero Fontana's designs, then retouched for this 1574 printing by a seventeen-year-old named Agostino Carracci, a few years before he became one of the defining painters of the Baroque.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWide neck, set-in sleeves, styled with dropped shoulders for the oversized look\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePrinted on an oversized, GOTS-certified organic cotton tee, 100% organic cotton, imported.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"White \/ S","offer_id":49319797129451,"sku":"7689550","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"White \/ M","offer_id":49319797162219,"sku":"3475700","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"White \/ L","offer_id":49319797194987,"sku":"3477745","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"White \/ XL","offer_id":49319797227755,"sku":"9603169","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"White \/ 2XL","offer_id":49319797260523,"sku":"5745995","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/unisex-organic-oversized-high-neck-blaster-2.0-t-shirt-white-front-6a94c5b46b6f7.png?v=1788135775","url":"https:\/\/fenicebooks.com\/products\/victoria-ex-labore-tee","provider":"La Fenice Antiquaria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}