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Rime de gli Academici occvlti : con le loro imprese et discorsi

Arnigio, Bartolomeo, 1523-1577, Bartolomeo, da Brescia, b. 1506, Accademia degli Occulti (Brescia, Italy) · 1568 · In Brescia : Appresso Vincenzo di Sabbio · 43 pictures

A 1568 Brescian collection of verse, emblems (imprese) and commentary by the members of the Accademia degli Occulti, printed by Vincenzo di Sabbio for an academic literary readership. The plates are woodcut emblem devices with mottoes and square pictorial initials in which letters sit among satyrs, chariots, birds, sea creatures and hatched landscapes, useful as decorative capitals and small symbolic vignettes.

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