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Imprese sacre con triplicati discorsi, illustrate & arricchite. Con le aggiuntione [sic] ultimamente fattevi dall'istesso autore et in questa terza impressione, con sei copiosissime tavole molto più che prima adornate

Aresi, Paolo, 1574-1644 · 1629 · In Venetia, Presso D. Pasquardi · 130 pictures

Paolo Aresi's Imprese sacre, a religious emblem book of devices paired with long moral discourses, issued in its third enlarged edition at Venice by D. Pasquardi in 1629 for preachers and devout readers. The plates here are woodcut initials: letters enclosed in foliate roundels or hatched grounds, with curling acanthus, buds and vine tendrils usable as drop caps, roundel frames and border ornament.

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