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Apparato et feste nelle noze dello illvstrissimo signor duca di Firenze, & della duchessa Sua consorte : con le sue stanze, madriali, comedia, & intermedij, in quelle recitati

Giambullari, Pierfrancesco, 1495-1555, Landi, Antonio, fl. 1539. Commodo · 1539 · Impressa in Fiorenza : Per Benedetto Giunta · 1 picture

A 1539 Florentine account printed by Benedetto Giunta of the festivities for the wedding of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici and Eleonora di Toledo, with verses, a comedy and intermedi by Pierfrancesco Giambullari and Antonio Landi, written for a courtly audience. The single picture is a small framed woodcut of a fleur-de-lis flanked by two putti holding garlands above a scrolled bracket, a decorative emblem a designer could adapt for a formal ornamental border or frame.

Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574 · Eleonora de Toledo, Duchess, consort of Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1522-1562 · Pageants · Triumphal arches · Costume

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