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Iacobi Philippi Tomasini Patauini ... Petrarcha rediuiuus : integram poetae celeberrimi vitam iconibus aere celatis exhibens : accessit nobilissimae foeminae Laurae breuis historia

Tomasini, Giacomo Filippo, 1595-1655 · 1635 · Patavii : Typis Liuij Pasquati & Iacobi Bortoli, apud Paulum Frambottum · 24 pictures

Petrarcha rediuiuus is a 1635 Latin biography of the poet Petrarch by Giacomo Filippo Tomasini, printed in Padua for a learned readership and including a short life of Laura. Its pictures are small engraved and woodcut scenes and decorative initials, with an engraved frontispiece of a pedestal inscription before a hilly town view, and a designer could draw on their compact landscape vignettes and ornamental capitals for historical or literary print work.

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 · Noves, Laura de, 1308?-1348

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