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Diverse imprese accommodate a diuerse moralità : con versi che i loro significati dichiarano insieme con molte altre nella lingua italiana non piu tradotte

Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550, Marquale, Giovanni, 16th cent, Eskrich, Pierre, ca. 1530-ca. 1590 · 1564 · In Lione : Appresso Gvlielmo Rovillio · 362 pictures

Andrea Alciati's emblem book in Giovanni Marquale's Italian verse translation, printed at Lyon by Guillaume Rouillé in 1564 with woodcuts credited to Pierre Eskrich, for readers who read moral pictures alongside rhymed glosses. The cuts pair emblem scenes with strapwork frames, columned side-pieces and horizontal tailpieces of grotesque masks, winged heads, scrolling foliage and paired beasts, usable as rules, borders and spot ornament.

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