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Historia monastica di d. Pietro Ricordati, gia Calzolari ... distinta in cinque giornate

Calzolari, Pietro, d. 1580 · 1575 · Rome, Appresso V. Accolti · 16 pictures

An Italian monastic history by Pietro Calzolari, printed in Rome in 1575 for a Catholic readership and held by Duke University Libraries. The pictures are woodcut decorative initials, each a large letter framed in a square with grotesque scrollwork, human figures, and foliage, offering a designer ready models for ornamental capitals and historiated letterforms.

Monasticism and religious orders · Catholics

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