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Discorso di M. Sebastiano Erizzo sopra le medaglie de gli antichi : con la particolar dichiaratione di esse medaglie : nellaquale oltre all'istoria de gli imperadori romani, si contengono le imagini delle deità dei gentili, con le loro allegorie : & insieme vna varia & piena cognitione delle antichità

Erizzo, Sebastiano, 1525-1585, Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565 · 1568 · In Vinegia : Appresso Giovanni Varisco et compagni · 78 pictures

Discorso di M. Sebastiano Erizzo is a 1568 Venetian book printed in Venice by Giovanni Varisco and companions, written by Sebastiano Erizzo with notes by Girolamo Ruscelli, describing ancient Roman coins for scholars and collectors of antiquities. Its pictures are small woodcut-style drawings of coin reverses, each with a seated or standing allegorical figure inside a ring of lettering and the letters S C. A designer could draw on these as compact emblematic roundels, with inscriptions framing a central personification.

Medals, Ancient · Medals, Roman

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