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Diverse imprese accommodate a diuerse moralità : con versi che i loro significati dichiarano insieme con molte altre nella lingua Italiana non piu tradotte

Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550, Marquale, Giovanni, tr · 1551 · In Lione : Da Gvlielmo Rovillio · 396 pictures

Andrea Alciati's emblem collection in Giovanni Marquale's Italian translation, printed at Lyon by Guillaume Rouillé in 1551 for readers of moral allegory and courtly device. Alongside the small square emblem cuts sit woodcut ornament bands: strapwork cartouches, reclining sphinxes and satyrs, foliate masks and double-headed eagles, usable as rules, headpieces and tailpieces or cut apart for single motifs.

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