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Breue racconto della trasportatione del corpo di Papa Paolo V. dalla basilica di S. Pietro à quella di S. Maria Maggiore : con l'oratione recitata nelle sue esequie, & alcuni versi posti nell'apparato

Guidiccioni, Lelio, 1570-1643, Krüger, Theodor, d. 1624, Venturi, Sergio, 1584?-1646, Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680, Bernini, Pietro, 1562-1629 · 1623 · In Roma : Appresso l'erede di Bartolomeo Zannetti · 29 pictures

A 1623 Italian account printed in Rome by the heirs of Bartolomeo Zannetti, describing the transfer of Pope Paul V's body from St Peter's to Santa Maria Maggiore, with a funeral oration and verses by Lelio Guidiccioni and others. The engraved plates show allegorical virtue figures standing or seated with inscribed pedestals, plus an ornamental cartouche with an eagle, a griffin and tasselled drapery, all suited to designers studying Baroque allegory and emblematic ornament.

Paul V, Pope, 1552-1621 · Funeral rites and ceremonies

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