Ouidio istorico, politico, morale : breuemente spiegato, e delineato con artificiose figure, accresciuta questa quinta impressione di nuoue allegorie
Francesco Bardi's Italian prose retelling of Ovid's Metamorphoses with added allegorical and moral commentary, printed in a fifth edition by Girolamo Albrizzi in Venice in 1696 for general Italian readers. Small square woodcuts, reprinted from older blocks, set myths in open landscapes with ruled hatched skies, distant hilltop towns, groves, temples and obelisks, and crowded figures in classical or sixteenth-century dress.








































































