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Discorsi morali dell'eccellente S. Fabio Glissenti contra il dispiacer del morire, detto athanatophilia : diuisi in cinque dialoghi, occorsi in cinque giornate : ne'quali si discorre quanto ragioneuolmente si dourebbe desiderar la Morte, e come naturalmente la si uada fuggendo : con trenta vaghi, & vtili ragionamenti, come tante piaceuoli nouelle interposti : cauati da gli abusi del presente viuer mondano : et vn molto curioso trattato della pietra de' filosofi : adornati di bellissime figure, a' loro luoghi appropriate

Glissenti, Fabio, author · 1596 · In Venetia : Appresso Domenico Farri · 1 picture

This 1596 Italian moral dialogue by Fabio Glissenti, printed in Venice by Domenico Farri, is a philosophical treatise on the fear of death, written for a general reader. Its one framed woodcut shows a seated philosopher lecturing two listeners at a table, with a skeletal figure reaching in from the right and a sphere-like object hanging overhead, set within carved strapwork borders and an ornamental initial; a designer might borrow the compact framed-panel layout and the contrast of the dark cut-line figures against open white ground.

Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543. Totentanz · Death -- Early works to 1800 · Fear of death -- Early works to 1800 · Dance of death -- Early works to 1800 · Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800

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