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Discorso intorno all'antro delle ninfe naiadi di Homero

Belloni, Giovanni, d. ca. 1623 · 1601 · In Padova, Appresso F. Bolzetta · 5 pictures

A 1601 Italian treatise on Homer's Cave of the Nymphs, printed in Padua by Bolzetta and written by Giovanni Belloni for scholars and readers of classical literature. The four woodcut pictures are decorative printer's ornaments: an emblem with a central mask, an oval cartouche framing a seated figure labelled PAX with scrollwork and grotesque heads, a horizontal frieze with a standing figure between satyr-like creatures, and a large foliate initial P, offering designers period strapwork, grotesque masks and flourished capitals.

Homer

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