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Dialoghi di M. Speron Speroni : nuouamente ristampati, & con molta diligenza riueduti, & corretti

Speroni, Sperone, 1500-1588, Barbaro, Daniel, 1514-1570 · 1544 · In Venetia : Per Francesco Lorenzini da Turino · 4 pictures

A 1544 Venetian printed dialogue collection by Sperone Speroni, issued by Francesco Lorenzini da Torino and concerned with women and language, written in Italian for a literate humanist readership. The pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a grotesque mask within scrolled cartouche borders, a horned monster beside a walled town, a figure in a thicket, and a serpent-entwined staff with a hand, offering a designer compact, period-authentic decorative vignettes and printer's devices.

Women · Language and languages

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