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Cento novelle amorose de i signori accademici incogniti. Diuise in trè parti

Bisaccioni, Maiolino, 1582-1663 · 1651 · Venetia, Presso li Guerigli · 36 pictures

A seventeenth-century Italian collection of amorous short stories, published in Venice in 1651 by Maiolino Bisaccioni and aimed at a general reading public. The pictures are woodcut historiated initials, decorative capital letters set in leafy frames with stems, scrolls and small flowers, with the letter I or C at centre.

Italian fiction

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