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Discorso della religione antica de Romani, insieme vn'altro Discorso della castrametatione, et disciplina militare, bagni, & essercitij antichi di detti Romani;

Du Choul, Guillaume, 16th cent, Du Choul, Guillaume, 16th cent. Discours sur la castrametation et discipline militaire des Romains. Italian, Simeoni, Gabriele, 1509-1575, Eskrich, Pierre, ca. 1530-ca. 1590 · 1569 · In Lione, Appresso Gvglielmo Rovillio · 481 pictures

A 1569 Italian edition printed in Lyon by Guglielmo Rovillio, written by Guillaume Du Choul with Gabriele Simeoni, on Roman religion, military camps, baths and exercises for a learned readership. Its pictures are small woodcut reproductions of ancient Roman coins, showing gods, personifications and emperors within beaded or laurel borders, with inscriptions around the rims; a designer could take from them the compact circular medallion format and the ornamental lettering set around the edge.

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