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Discorsi sopra i dialoghi di M. Speron Sperone : ne' qvali si ragiona della bellezza & della eccellenza de lor concetti

Mantova Benavides, Marco, 1489-1582, Speroni, Sperone, 1500-1588. Dialoghi · 1561 · In Venetia : Appresso Francesco Rampazetto · 3 pictures

This is a 1561 Venetian printed edition of Sperone Speroni's dialogues, issued by the Venice press of Francesco Rampazetto and kept by the Getty Research Institute. The pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a title-page frame of two putti holding a cartouche, and a decorated initial M with figures and scrollwork. A designer could take from them the interlaced scroll borders, cherub figures and framed cartouche layouts typical of sixteenth-century Italian title pages.

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