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La donna costante : comedia

Borghini, Raffaello, active 16th century · 1589 · In Venetia : Appresso gli heredi di Marchiò Sessa · 7 pictures

A late sixteenth-century Italian printed comedy by Raffaello Borghini, issued in Venice in 1589 by the heirs of Marchiò Sessa for a reading public. The pictures are woodcut decorated initials, large capital letters filled with grotesque scrollwork, animals, and foliage, which a designer could adapt for ornamental letterforms or heading panels.

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