Delle lettere di m. Pietro Bembo ... primo[-secondo] volvme

Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547, Sansovino, Francesco, 1521-1586 · 1560 · In Venetia : Appresso F. Sansovino et compagni · 8 pictures

A 1560 Venetian printed edition of the letters of Pietro Bembo, issued by Francesco Sansovino and his partners for a learned readership of Italian humanist correspondence. The pictures are woodcut historiated initials, a large D and N framed in strapwork with acanthus scrolls, a small putto, a dog or hound, and a seated figure, cut in fine parallel hatching that suggests Renaissance decorative lettering a designer could adapt for display capitals.

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