In this 1690 engraving, the Bolognese artist Giovanni Maria Mitelli shows his contemporaries pondering the latest avvisi. Their responses include "Non può essere (It cannot be.)", "Stà cosi (That’s the way it is.)"and "O che follia (Oh, what folly!)" Meanwhile, a Frenchman and a Spaniard, identified by their sterotypical costumes, pummel each other into the ground. (They are saying, "Vada il sangue (Let the blood flow) and "e la vita (and life as well.") The message is that the current wars between the French and the Spaniards is paralleled by an equally ferocious contest between the competing "truths" expressed in the avvisi and the relative beliefs of their readers.