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Egloga rusticale di Sauina

Legacci, Pierantonio, Castagni, Michelangelo di Bernardino, Landi, Giovanni, 1477?-1551 · 1533 · Stampata in Siena : Per Michelagnolo di Bernardino ad instantia di Giouanni di Alixandro libraio · 2 pictures

Egloga rusticale di Sauina is a 1533 pastoral eclogue by Pierantonio Legacci, printed in Siena by Michelagnolo di Bernardino for the bookseller Giovanni di Alixandro. The title page sits within a black woodcut border of vines and a heraldic shield flanked by putti, and the second page carries a woodcut of a tree above a wolf suckling two cubs. A designer could take the dense frame ornament and the compact, lively line of the animal woodcut as models for borders and vignettes.

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