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Fiume del terrestre paradiso : diuiso in quattro capi, o discorsi / trattato difensivo del sig. dottor don Niccolò Catalano da Santo Mauro ; oue si ragguaglia il mondo nella verità dell'antica forma d'habito de' frati minori istituita da S. Francesco ; dato alle stampe dal P. M. Giulio Antonio Catalano da S. Mauro ...

Catalano, Niccolò · 1652 · In Fiorenza : Nella stamperia d'Amadore Massi · 34 pictures

A 1652 Florentine treatise by Niccolò Catalano, printed at the Amadore Massi press and edited by Giulio Antonio Catalano, defending the original Franciscan friars' habit for a readership of religious and scholars. Its engraved plates show standing friars in long hooded robes, some with haloes, framed in ruled borders with inscriptions, offering a designer period costume silhouettes, drapery studies and monastic figure poses.

Franciscans · Monasticism and religious orders -- Habit -- Early works to 1800

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