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Gli sforzi del desiderio ricreazione dramatica musicale ai serenissimi arciduchi Ferdinando Carlo, e Sigismondo Francesco d'Austria, ed arciduchessa Anna di Toscana

Mattioli, Andrea · 1652 · Ferrara : Per Gioseffo Gironi · 4 pictures

Gli sforzi del desiderio is a 1652 Italian dramatic musical entertainment by Andrea Mattioli, printed in Ferrara by Gioseffo Gironi for Archdukes Ferdinand Charles and Sigismund Francis of Austria and Archduchess Anna of Tuscany. The pictures are plain typeset lists of Italian names and titles, such as the Nine Muses, Apollo, Fortuna and Merito, set in mixed roman and italic faces with a small decorative border, useful to a designer for classical type layout and ornament.

Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria, 1630-1665 · Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria, 1628-1662 · Anna, Archduchess of Austria, 1616-1676 · Fame · Desire · Musicians · Mythology, Greek

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