Americae tertia pars Memorabile[m] provinciae Brasiliae historiam contine[n]s, Germanico primùm sermone scriptam à Ioa[n]ne Stadio Homburgensi Hesso, nunc autem Latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Priuato Colchanthe Po: & Med: addita est narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem provinciam, qua[m] ille initio Gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit. : His accessit descriptio morum & ferocitatis incolarum illius regionis, atque colloquium ipsorum idiomate conscriptum.

Staden, Hans, approximately 1525-approximately 1576, Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609, Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611. Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil. Latin, Barré, Nicolas, active 1555. Copie de quelques letres sur la navigation du chevalier de Villegaignon es terre de l'Amerique. Latin Selections · 1597 · [Francofurti ad Moenum] : Venales reperiu[n]tur in officina Theodori de Bry. · 16 pictures

This 1597 Latin edition, printed at Frankfurt by Theodor de Bry's workshop, gathers the Brazil travel accounts of Hans Staden and Jean de Léry, translated for a learned European readership. The pictures are small black-line ornamental headpieces, a grotesque mask in a scrolled cartouche, and a lozenge of dense filigree, with one full-page scene of a courtyard ritual rendered in engraving. A designer could take from them the fluid, dense scrollwork and the mask-centred symmetry of late sixteenth-century printed ornament.

Staden, Hans, approximately 1525-approximately 1576 · Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611 · Villegaignon, Nicolas Durand de, 1510-1571? · Indians of South America · Natural history · Tupi language · Indian linguistics · Imprint 1597

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