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La divisione del mondo; applavsi mvsicali alle grandezze dell' eccellentissima repvblica di Lvcca, rappresentati per la sua celebre funzione delle Tasche, l'anno M.DC.LXXXI.

- · 1681 · Lvcca, Appresso I. Paci · 2 pictures

A 1681 Italian libretto printed at Lucca by Appresso I. Paci, written as a musical celebration for the Republic of Lucca's Tasche festival and presented to its civic audience. The first picture is a dramatis personae page framed by decorative typographic borders and printed ornaments, and the second is a large woodcut-style decorated initial S with floral scrollwork and a flourish of text beside it. A designer could draw on the dense ornamental framing and the carved, leafy initial letterform.

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