Sembra di ghiaccio e il fuoco in seno asconde
It looks like ice and hides fire in its bosom.
“Hiding love. Pyropus, or Carbuncle. It seems cold: While it is warming its chest with fire.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, only ex index, class 2, XXXII 32.
Compescuit ignibus ignes. Ex Ovid
He tamed fire with fire – From Ovid.
“Inscription on a pyx with the image of an illustrious woman, adorned with carbuncles.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, only ex index, class 4, 204.